Science Studies as Naturalized Philosophy
This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies. This is a novelty, since extant literature
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STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editors-in-Chief : VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. ´ JAN WOLENSKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
VOLUME 348 For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6607
Science Studies as Naturalized Philosophy
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Finn Collin University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Finn Collin University of Copenhagen Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication Njalsgade 80 2300 Copenhagen Denmark [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-9740-8 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9741-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9741-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010935694 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
In the mid-1990s I had the good fortune to be a member of a research group at the University of Copenhagen that also comprised Heine Andersen, Bo Jacobsen, Søren Barlebo and Jørgen Zachariassen. The topic of investigation was the standards of scientific excellence embraced by Danish social science communities, and the effort was sponsored by the Danish Research Council for the Social Sciences. In this forum, my budding interest in STS received a crucial stimulus, and I owe my colleagues in the research project a deep debt of gratitude for our fruitful and enjoyable discussions. Since then, I have been struggling to find my bearings in the complex debates within STS and to put together my own contribution to this discussion. It took a research grant from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities, starting in 2008, to provide me with the undisturbed time needed to finish this project. I am grateful to the Research Council for providing me with ideal working conditions and to my two collaborators in the project, Jan Faye and David Budtz Pedersen, for their helpful comments upon my drafts. Steve Fuller, Vidar Enebakk, Klemens Kappel and Thomas Basbøll also read the manuscript, or parts of it, and I am truly grateful for their comments. All the above mentioned individuals, alas, remain unpersuaded by my argument on one point or another, and it behoves me to state that I alone am responsible for the views expressed in the following text.
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