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urn:uuid:27a32643-96a0-45d6-9bc9-dbfa76d2fe00 03 01 01 urn:uuid:27a32643-96a0-45d6-9bc9-dbfa76d2fe00 15 9781783744121 06 10.11647/OBP.0129 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Science as Social Existence Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge 1 A01 Jeff Kochan 01 eng 00 444 03 04 B3279.H49 12 PDX 10 PHI018000 20 sociology of scientific knowledge 20 Martin Heidegger 10 SCI075000 20 existential conception of science 10 SOC026040 10 PHI000000 20 philosophy of science 20 social science 20 history of science 20 Science and Technology Studies 01 06 03 00 <p>In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing. </p><p>By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can explicate, elaborate, and empirically ground Heidegger’s philosophy of science in a way that makes it more accessible and useful for social scientists and historians of science. Likewise, incorporating Heideggerian phenomenology into SSK renders SKK a more robust and attractive methodology for use by scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Kochan’s ground-breaking reinterpretation of Heidegger also enables STS scholars to sustain a principled analytical focus on scientific subjectivity, without running afoul of the orthodox subject-object distinction they often reject.</p><p>Science as Social Existence is the first book of its kind, unfurling its argument through a range of topics relevant to contemporary STS research. These include the epistemology and metaphysics of scientific practice, as well as the methods of explanation appropriate to social scientific and historical studies of science. Science as Social Existence puts concentrated emphasis on the compatibility of Heidegger’s existential conception of science with the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, pursuing this combination at both macro- and micro-historical levels.</p><p>Beautifully written and accessible, Science as Social Existence puts new and powerful tools into the hands of sociologists and historians of science, cultural theorists of science, Heidegger scholars, and pluralist philosophers of science.</p> 01 00 03 02 https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0129_frontcover.jpg Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 19 2017 06 15 9781783744107 06 15 9781783744114 06 15 9781783744121 06 15 9781800645486 06 15 9781783744602 06 15 9781783744138 06 15 9781783744145 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0129.pdf 99 04 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0129 99 04