Biographies of scientific objects /
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
c2000.
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Sommario:
- 1. Preternatural philosophy / Lorraine Daston.
- 2. Mathematical entities in scientific discourse / Rivka Feldhay.
- 3. Dreams and self consciousness / Doris Kaufmann.
- 4. Mutations of the self in old regime and postrevolutionary france / Jan Goldstein.
- 5. The comming into being and passing away of value theories in economics (1776-1976) / Gerard Jorland.
- 6. An entirely new object of consciousness, of volition, of thought / Peter Wagner.
- 7. Sentimental pessimism and ethnographic experience / Marshall Sahlins.
- 8. How the ether spawned the microworld / Jed Z. Buchwald.
- 9. Life insurance, medical testing, and the management of mortality / Theodore M. Porter.
- 10. On the partial existence of existing and nonexisting objects / Bruno Latour.
- 11. Cytoplasmic particles / Hans Jorg rheinberger.