Science in Action

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Bruno Latour

页数:288

出版时间:1988-10-15

价格:GBP 22.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674792913

图书标签:Latour社会学人类学STSScience科学Anthropology社会学|人类学

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific literature, the activities of laboratories, the institutional context of science in the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted. From the study of scientific practice he develops an analysis of science as the building of networks. Throughout, Bruno Latour shows how a lively and realistic picture of science in action alters our conception of not only the natural sciences but also the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge in general. This stimulating book, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide range of scientific activities, will interest all philosophers, sociologists and historians of science, scientists and engineers, and students of the philosophy of social science and the sociology of knowledge.

读后感

一本对“科学超脱性”（detachment of science）进行祛魅的书：1、技术性论文（technical papers）中潜藏的修辞术“使异议者感到孤独”，参考文献的层积化特性使试图反驳的读者仿佛感觉自己面对的是一些成群而来的天才从而羞赧地闭上了嘴。2、实验室中的小九九更不必多说了。3...

一本对“科学超脱性”（detachment of science）进行祛魅的书：1、技术性论文（technical papers）中潜藏的修辞术“使异议者感到孤独”，参考文献的层积化特性使试图反驳的读者仿佛感觉自己面对的是一些成群而来的天才从而羞赧地闭上了嘴。2、实验室中的小九九更不必多说了。3...

一本对“科学超脱性”（detachment of science）进行祛魅的书：1、技术性论文（technical papers）中潜藏的修辞术“使异议者感到孤独”，参考文献的层积化特性使试图反驳的读者仿佛感觉自己面对的是一些成群而来的天才从而羞赧地闭上了嘴。2、实验室中的小九九更不必多说了。3...

一本对“科学超脱性”（detachment of science）进行祛魅的书：1、技术性论文（technical papers）中潜藏的修辞术“使异议者感到孤独”，参考文献的层积化特性使试图反驳的读者仿佛感觉自己面对的是一些成群而来的天才从而羞赧地闭上了嘴。2、实验室中的小九九更不必多说了。3...

一本对“科学超脱性”（detachment of science）进行祛魅的书：1、技术性论文（technical papers）中潜藏的修辞术“使异议者感到孤独”，参考文献的层积化特性使试图反驳的读者仿佛感觉自己面对的是一些成群而来的天才从而羞赧地闭上了嘴。2、实验室中的小九九更不必多说了。3...

用户评价

A critical study of 20th century physical science as in the process of its very production - 圆了我高中时期的幻想><

本书宗旨在于描写实验室八卦 揭穿科学神坛哈哈哈（前言可爱

读完这本才能读懂Reassembling the Social里面老爷子唠唠叨叨的究竟是在干什么。ANT理论必读，从methodology到framework大小层次全部包抄，但是当我们真的通过actants的强弱同盟而不是社会结构来看这个世界，道德责任自主性都到哪里去了，压迫反抗公民义务又都到哪里去了呢？嗯，这个估计要去读后面latour的matters of concerns了。

A funny book! My favorite part is his refutation against the "social studies of science" or "the social construction of technology". The description of a Great Divide between few scientists and the "irrational" mass is also insightful. ============================= Latour早年的STS对我来说尚有可接受可欣赏的地方。

比we have never been modern好读也有意思多了！