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Andrew Pickering

Andrew Pickering is a sociologist and historian of science at Exeter University. He has written extensively on the sociology of science. He is currently working on a book on the social history of cybernetics.

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Ideas on the Nature of Science

Ideas on the Nature of Science

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If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but science itself has largely escaped scrutiny. In this fascinating collection of interviews, CBC Radio’s Ideas produce …

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