Preface |
A peculiar institution / 1: |
Defending a legend / 1.1: |
Science as it is and does / 1.2: |
A peculiar social institution / 1.3: |
A body of knowledge / 1.4: |
Naturalism in the study of Nature / 1.5: |
Keeping it simple / 1.6: |
Basically, it's purely academic / 2: |
Framing the indefinable / 2.1: |
Narrowing the frame / 2.2: |
Research as inquiry / 2.3: |
Science in the instrumental mode / 2.4: |
Basic research as a policy category / 2.5: |
Fundamental knowledge as an epistemic category / 2.6: |
Out of pure curiosity / 2.7: |
Academic science as a culture / 2.8: |
Many disciplines in one science / 2.9: |
Academic science / 3: |
The republic of learning / 3.1: |
Elements of the scientific ethos / 3.2: |
Communalism / 3.3: |
Universalism / 3.4: |
Disinterestedness, humility / 3.5: |
Originality / 3.6: |
Scepticism / 3.7: |
CUDOS institutionalized / 3.8: |
Specialization / 3.9: |
Avocation / 3.10: |
Science in society / 3.11: |
New modes of knowledge production / 4: |
The academic mode / 4.1: |
Is science to be believed? / 4.2: |
What is happening in science? / 4.3: |
The advent of post-academic science / 4.4: |
An undramatic revolution / 4.5: |
Collectivization / 4.6: |
Limits to growth / 4.7: |
Exploiting knowledge / 4.8: |
Science policy / 4.9: |
Industrialization / 4.10: |
Bureaucratization / 4.11: |
Community and communication / 5: |
What sort of knowledge? / 5.1: |
What are the facts? / 5.2: |
Eradicating subjectivity / 5.3: |
Quantification / 5.4: |
Instruments / 5.5: |
Experiment / 5.6: |
Trust / 5.7: |
Verification / 5.8: |
The personal element / 5.9: |
We are not alone / 5.10: |
Empathy / 5.11: |
Modes of communication / 5.12: |
Networking intellectual property / 5.13: |
Universalism and unification / 6: |
Generalization and abstraction / 6.1: |
Classifying the 'facts' / 6.2: |
Systematics / 6.3: |
Theories as maps / 6.4: |
Maps as theories / 6.5: |
Formalization / 6.6: |
Mathematics / 6.7: |
Rationality / 6.8: |
Systematization / 6.9: |
Models and metaphors / 6.10: |
Scientific domains / 6.11: |
Disinterestedness and objectivity / 7: |
Striving towards objectivity / 7.1: |
What makes science 'interesting'? / 7.2: |
What makes science reliable? / 7.3: |
Interests and values / 7.4: |
Social interests in the natural sciences / 7.5: |
But who sets the research agenda? / 7.6: |
Disinterestedness in the human sciences / 7.7: |
Free from interests - or free to be interested? / 7.8: |
Problem solving in the context of application / 7.9: |
Objectivity or emancipation? / 7.10: |
Originality and novelty / 8: |
Problems / 8.1: |
Projects / 8.2: |
Specialties / 8.3: |
Disciplines and their paradigms / 8.4: |
Getting down to fundamentals / 8.5: |
Normal science / 8.6: |
Who sets the problems? / 8.7: |
Interdisciplinarity / 8.8: |
Discovery / 8.9: |
Hypotheses / 8.10: |
Prediction / 8.11: |
Hypothetical entities / 8.12: |
Constructivism / 8.13: |
What do scientists have in mind? / 8.14: |
Scepticism and the growth of knowledge / 9: |
The agonistic element / 9.1: |
Consensus - or just closure / 9.2: |
Codified knowledge / 9.3: |
Getting things wrong / 9.4: |
Mysteries, marvels and magic / 9.5: |
Epistemic change / 9.6: |
The evolutionary analogy / 9.7: |
Complexity and progress / 9.8: |
What, then, can we believe? / 10: |
Understanding and explanation / 10.1: |
Life-world knowledge / 10.2: |
The epistemology of the life-world / 10.3: |
Cultural contexts / 10.4: |
Sciences, religions, and other belief systems / 10.5: |
Science and common sense / 10.6: |
Realism / 10.7: |
Unified by reduction / 10.8: |
Post-academic knowledge / 10.9: |
Endnotes |
Bibliography and author index |
Index |
Preface |
A peculiar institution / 1: |
Defending a legend / 1.1: |