Intersecting Processes

complexity & change in environment, biomedicine & society

December 13, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Selection versus construction in science studies: A response to Hull's Science as a Process

Hull’s Science as a Process (U. Chicago, 1988) invited us to borrow a biological theory, natural selection, after philosophical streamlining, to analyze scientific activity and conceptual change.  This ambitious synthetic work of the late David Hull, a philosopher of evolution … Continue reading

October 25, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Causes, Explanation, and Nonpartitionability

Cause and explanation are vexed terms in interpretations of science (Woolgar 1981; Latour 1988a); in fact, they are in social science more generally (Lloyd 1986; Miller 1991). I am interested enough in the “heterogeneous constructionist” sense of causality and explanation … Continue reading

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