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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 520–521.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Miguel Tamen Lorraine Daston, ed., Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (New York: Zone Books, 2004), 250 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong with Democracy? From...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 528–537.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., suggesting that his approach is more a matter of art than of science. In this defense of methodological pluralism, Scott’s approach is shown to be vindicated by his insights into how the peoples of Zomia evolved ways to evade incorporation, over a period of centuries, into any of the states of Southeast Asia...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 346.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Oren Harman Meisel Martin , Chaos Imagined: Literature, Art, Science . ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 ), 608 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Bruno Latour Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Ashraf Noor THE SCIENCE WARS A Dialogue Bruno Latour Translated by Ashraf Noor She: So you’re a sociologist and you do research on scientists? Well, then you can explain something to me. People in my lab...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 50–77.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Roxanne L. Euben CK 9.1-06 Euben 10/31/02 10:29 AM Page 50 A COUNTERNARRATIVE OF SHARED AMBIVALENCE Some Muslim and Western Perspectives on Science and Reason Roxanne L. Euben...
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Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (2): 197–213.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Nina Pelikan Straus © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 C O L U M N S FROM DOSTOEVSKY TO AL-QAEDA What Fiction Says to Social Science Nina Pelikan Straus Here, for once, the line between writing...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 419–489.
Published: 01 August 2014
... SOCIETIES An Anatomy of the Literature in Anthropology and Political Science Johan M. G. van der Dennen Present-­day discourse about “the myth of the peaceful savage” is, clearly, an extension of the old Hobbes-­Rousseau controversy, but it is not so clear when the argument that nonstate...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 128.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Oren Harman Leroi Armand Marie , The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science . ( New York : Viking , 2014 ), 501 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 106–107.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Guido Giglioni Martin Craig , Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2014 ), 262 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 494.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Lorraine Daston Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise, eds., Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 287 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 337–362.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Casper Bruun Jensen In this article, an anthropologist examines the question, asked today in diverse forms by an increasing variety of actors: what is the aim or telos of the social sciences? From within the disciplinary communities of the social sciences themselves, the answers given...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 401–402.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Bas van Fraassen; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Shapin Steven , A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994 ), 483 pp. ...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Oren Harman Arianrhod Robyn , Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 ), 376 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 2 1the most adventurous and best, though also the most problematical. In it, Lear s self- drawn...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 402–423.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of science studies” (Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway), Gaskill finds that Rorty's persistent assumption of nature/culture and word/world dichotomies is politically dangerous and prevents his comprehending both distributed agency and the complexity of human entanglements with the nonhuman...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 447–449.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Oren Harman [email protected] Jimena Canales , Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 ), 398 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Poreskoro, with three cat and four dog heads and a snake...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Clifford Geertz Meera Nanda, Prophets Facing Backwards: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003), 288 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (1): 144–145.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Lorraine Daston Charles Coulston Gillispie, Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 751 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 215–216.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Philip Gossett Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Song and Season: Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007), 400 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 37–41.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Relativism Culture A Site of Relativist Energy in the Cognitive Sciences Andreas Roepstorff It is easy for me to agree with Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s description of rela- tivism as a “fantasy heresy” and to sympathize with her remarks on the conse- quent difficulty in getting a proper...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 82–86.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Isabelle Stengers This piece is an answer to the responses of Helen Verran, Steven D. Brown, and Brit Ross Winthereik to the author's article, “Comparison as a Matter of Concern.” She acknowledges the difficulty of her respondents to accept her claim that the sciences may be destroyed as many...