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The Cognitive Turn

Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Science

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Editors:
  1. Steve Fuller

    1. Center for the Study of Science in Society, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA

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  2. Marc Mey

    1. Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium

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  3. Terry Shinn

    1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

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  4. Steve Woolgar

    1. Human Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK

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Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 13)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Mapping the Study of Scientific Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Units of Analysis of Science Studies

      • Ronald N. Giere
      Pages 3-11

    3. Contributions of Psychology to an Integrative Science Studies: The Shape of Things to Come

      • William R. Shadish Jr., Robert A. Neimeyer
      Pages 13-38

  3. Models for Studying Scientific Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Error and Scientific Reasoning: An Experimental Inquiry

      • Michael E. Gorman
      Pages 41-69

    3. Scientific Cognition: Hot or Cold?

      • Paul Thagard
      Pages 71-82

    4. Tacit Knowledge and the Problem of Computer Modelling Cognitive Processes in Science

      • Stephen P. Turner
      Pages 83-94

  4. The Modularity of Scientific Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Granny, the Naked Emperor and the Second Cognitive Revolution

      • Beatrice de Gelder
      Pages 97-117

    3. Cognitive Process and Social Practice: The Case of Experimental Macroscopic Physics

      • Terry Shinn
      Pages 119-150

  6. The Prospects for an Integration of Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Representation, Cognition and Self: What Hope for an Integration of Psychology and Sociology?

      • Steve Woolgar
      Pages 201-223

    3. Integrating the Science Studies Disciplines

      • Thomas Nickles
      Pages 225-256

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 257-260
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About this book

If nothing else, the twelve papers assembled in this volume should lay to rest the idea that the interesting debates about the nature of science are still being conducted by "internalists" vs. "externalists,"" rationalists" vs. "arationalists, n or even "normative epistemologists" vs. "empirical sociologists of knowledge. " Although these distinctions continue to haunt much of the theoretical discussion in philosophy and sociology of science, our authors have managed to elude their strictures by finally getting beyond the post-positivist preoccupation of defending a certain division of labor among the science studies disciplines. But this is hardly to claim that our historians, philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists have brought about an "end of ideology," or even an "era of good feelings," to their debates. Rather, they have drawn new lines of battle which center more squarely than ever on practical matters of evaluating and selecting methods for studying science. To get a vivid sense of the new terrain that was staked out at the Yearbook conference, let us start by meditating on a picture. The front cover of a recent collection of sociological studies edited by one of us (Woolgar 1988) bears a stylized picture of a series of lined up open books presented in a typical perspective fashion. The global shape comes close to a trapezium, and is composed of smaller trapeziums gradually decreasing in size and piled upon each other so as to suggest a line receding in depth. The perspective is stylized too.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for the Study of Science in Society, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA

    Steve Fuller

  • Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium

    Marc Mey

  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    Terry Shinn

  • Human Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK

    Steve Woolgar

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Cognitive Turn

  • Book Subtitle: Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Science

  • Editors: Steve Fuller, Marc Mey, Terry Shinn, Steve Woolgar

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7825-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0306-0Published: 31 July 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4049-7Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7825-7Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0167-2320

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 260

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Sociology, general

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