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  • Since an articulate minorityof sociologists and historianshas constructedmore self-conscious and in some cases explicitlyrelativist"externalisms"thatareperceivedas impugning the privilegedstatus of scientificknowledge, that seem to question the cognitive autonomyof science as ultimatelyand categoricallyinsulatedfrom its context

  • Differencesover appropriatemethodand subjectmatterreflecta far more These remarkswere preparedfor presentationat a conferencemarkingthe fiftiethanniversaryof Harvard'sDepartmentof the Historyof Science, 20 February1988.This revisionhas benefitedfrom the comments of Drew Gilpin Faust, John L

  • Emic approachesare rooted in the attempt to understanda culture distant in time or space as it is perceived and experiencedby its members,while etic approachessee as fundamentala higher,realerreality, an organizingstructurethattranscendsthe reality perceived and negotiatedby the subjectsof one's investigation.I would suggest that a developing structureof scientific ideas is one form of such transcendent framework, a pattern of economic development and class relations in a traditional Marxistformulationanother.In philosophy,fundamentalproblemsof metaphysics, epistemology, or scientificmethodconstituteanothersuch framework that informs even the work of those scholars who call themselves historiansof philosophy

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Ideas and Actors in the History of Science
WOODSOR TREES?
Charles Rosenberg
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