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A view from the industrial age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Like the constructivist approach to the history of science, the new history of reading has shifted attention from disembodied ideas to the underlying material culture and the localized practices by which it is apprehended.
Topham, J.R.
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Interpreting the Quantum World [PDF]

open access: yesStud. History Philos. Modern Physics 29 (1998) 611, 1997
This is an "Essay-Review" of a book with the same title, by Jeffrey Bub (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
arxiv  

Criteria of Science, Cosmology, and Lessons of History [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2012
Perhaps more than any other of the physical sciences, cosmology exemplifies the inevitable contact between science and philosophy, including the problem of the demarcation criteria that distinguish science from non-science. Although modern physical cosmology is undoubtedly scientific, it is not obvious why it has this status, and nor is it obvious that
arxiv  

A Theory of the Knowledge Industry [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2012
This paper deals with the social production of knowledge in the exact sciences. After defining the term, exact science, it delineates the broad dynamic of its history. It, then, offers a socio-economic historical explanation of why the production of knowledge has become a major industry, if not the largest industry, in the last hundred years. The paper
arxiv  

A Science of History [PDF]

open access: yesThe Behavior Analyst, 1984
Paul T. Mountjoy, Douglas H. Ruben
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