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Reviving the Sociology of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
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‡Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
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Abstract

I compare recent work in the sociology of scientific knowledge with other types of sociological research. On this basis I urge a revival of the sociology of science, offer a tentative agenda, and attempt to show how the questions I raise might be addressed.

Type
Metaphilosophy and the History of the Philosophy of Science
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 67 , Issue S3: Supplement. Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part II: Symposia Papers Sep., 2000 , 2000 , pp. S33 - S44
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

†

I am grateful to Bruce Glymour for several conversations that inspired me to consider the relationships between sociology of science and other parts of sociology, and to Harry Collins and John Dupré for their vigorous (but constructive) disagreements.

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