Jan Golinski

Jan Golinski
Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science
by Jan Golinski

with a new Preface
University of Chicago Press, 2005

Viewing scientific knowledge as a product of human culture, Jan Golinski challenges the traditional trajectory of the history of science as steady and autonomous progress. In exploring topics such as the social identity of the scientist, the significance of places where science is practiced, and the roles played by language, instruments, and images, Making Natural Knowledge sheds new light on the relations between science and other cultural domains.