Science Studies as Epistemography Peter Dear

Abstract

The ambiguities of the catch-all label “science studies” are not accidental: such crypto-disciplinary names tend to be hobbled from the start by the need to draw in as many constituencies as possible, thereby running the risk of yoking together quite distinct intellectual endeavors. If (no doubt, contestably) we date science studies from the later 1970s, we immediately perceive a genealogy. Before science studies, there was a fairly well-established specialty called the history and philosophy of science. There was also a subfield of sociology known as the sociology of science. Science studies has now swallowed up large amounts of what once fell into those earlier categories, without always thoroughly digesting them. But the parts that were left behind tell their own stories.

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