Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK) as an important contemporary school emerged in Western philosophy of science, and forged the completely new social epistemology of the generation of science and rational structu...Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK) as an important contemporary school emerged in Western philosophy of science, and forged the completely new social epistemology of the generation of science and rational structure by highlighting the role of social factors in the production of scientific knowledge. In particular, "mangle of practice", proposed by one of its chief leaders Pickering, introduced SSK to the traditional horizon of historical materialism. The situating and being constructed scientific & cultural-practical field, in specific coupling of multiple social historical and cultural factors, made possible the emergence of the modeling of functionally scientific structure in deconstructive form. Pickering’s approach is deeply articulated with the theory of historical situating.展开更多
文摘Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK) as an important contemporary school emerged in Western philosophy of science, and forged the completely new social epistemology of the generation of science and rational structure by highlighting the role of social factors in the production of scientific knowledge. In particular, "mangle of practice", proposed by one of its chief leaders Pickering, introduced SSK to the traditional horizon of historical materialism. The situating and being constructed scientific & cultural-practical field, in specific coupling of multiple social historical and cultural factors, made possible the emergence of the modeling of functionally scientific structure in deconstructive form. Pickering’s approach is deeply articulated with the theory of historical situating.
