February 17, 2011
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Discussion on WUMB Commonwealth Journal based on new exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science exhibit, Race: Are we so different? Broadcast on Sunday February 13, 2011. Speakers: Peter Taylor, Nina Nolan, Chair, RACE Education Team, Boston Museum of Science, … Continue reading
November 18, 2010
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Attention to practice—to what scientists actually do—was a key development in the interpretation of science during the 1980s. This development is covered well by the collection of essays, Science as Practice and Culture (Pickering 1992a), and in the editor’s introduction … Continue reading
November 17, 2010
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In its broadest sense, the claim that scientific knowledge is constructed amounts to saying that it is not simply drawn from nature. According to a minimal definition of constructionism, what counts as knowledge is contingent on the scientific method or … Continue reading
October 13, 2010
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Philosophers and other interpreters of science have long been interested in the use of metaphors (Benjamin, Cantor and Christie 1987; Ortony 1993; Taylor 1996a). The general idea, advocated in particular by Hesse (1966), is that analogies, metaphors, and models are … Continue reading
October 9, 2010
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What concepts and practices help us work in the arena bordered on one side by critical interpretation of the directions taken by scientific and technological research and application and on the other side by organizing social movements so as to … Continue reading