Publication: Placing the View from Nowhere: Historical and Sociological Problems in the Location of Science
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1998
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Shapin, Steven. 1998. Placing the view from nowhere: Historical and sociological problems in the location of science. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 23(1): 5-12.
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Over the past two decades broadly geographical sensibilities have become prominent in the academic study of science. An account is given of tensions in science studies between transcendentalist conceptions of truth and emerging localist perspectives on the making, meaning and evaluation of scientific knowledge. The efficient spread of scientific knowledge is not a phenomenon that argues against the applicability of geographical sensibilities towards science but actually calls for an even more vigorous project in the geography of knowledge.
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science, localism, universalism, standardization, meaning
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