epistemological worry

history of science

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

historian of science and technology

innovator in the field of

history of science and technology

historian

scientist

director

university teacher

scientific organization

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

is the often confused concern that influences scientific practice as scientist worry about what they might know and how they might know it.

epistemological worries' (to use Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's term) about what they could know and how they could know it.1 From their efforts to mold affective states and monitor the parameters of racial ontologies, we can read their confused assessments of what kinds of knowledge they needed, what they needed to know and what they often knew they did not. (in Stoler, Along the Archival Grain 3)

is a discipline that seeks to explain how local knowledge became universal science, that is, how context eventually erased itself. History of science attempts to pry open the one black box science studies accepts from science without peering inside.

More generally, the challenge to historians of science before science became 'pre-packaged' is to explain how local knowledge for contextualized knowledge is always rooted in a par-ticular place and time became universal science, that is, how context eventually erased itself. History of science attempts to pry open the one black box science studies accepts from science without peering inside. (Daston 'science studies' 807-8)

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