Epistemic Cultures: Forms of Reason in Science
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Epistemic Cultures: Forms of Reason in Science
Rationality is a conspicuous yet neglected phenomenon. It has received much attention from philosophers and some social scientists, who have treated rationality as the hallmark of science, of economic action, or of modernity in general. Yet with all this attention, rationality has been conspicuously taken for granted, and its taken-for-grantedness has licensed a neglect of the practical activit...
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عنوان ژورنال: History of Political Economy
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0018-2702,1527-1919
DOI: 10.1215/00182702-23-1-105