Internal History and the Philosophy of Experiment: An Essay Review of The Creation Of Scientific Effects by Jed Z. Buchwald; Experiment and the Making of Meaning by David Gooding; The mangle of Practice By Andrew Pickering

摘要

Through the early 1980s the distinction between internal and external his- tory of technology and science played a constitutive role in the historical work of scholars from various disciplines studying science. Internal history, the history of the growth of knowledge, was a central concern to philoso- phers of science and many historians of science and technology (Hacking 1983, pp. 122ff; Kuhn 1968; Lakatos 1978, ch.2).