Woolgar, Steve

See Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France, trans. Alan Sheridan and John Law (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1988) Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1985). Also see, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2d ed. (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1986). 

See Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2d ed. 

The doctrine of textualism encouraged some sociologists of scientific knowledge to identify a scientific field with its literary inscriptions . Latour and Steve Woolgar, in particular, used Derrida s view of the constitutive role of writing in the representation of facts to link the generation and acceptance of facts in science to the deployment and dissemination of inscription devices , or machines such as chart recorders, oscilloscopes, scales or even NMR spectrometers that transform pieces of matter into written documents . Tied to networks of tex-... 

Recent studies in the field of science studies has revealed that in their praxis scientists, even pure scientists , do not encompass a positivist epistemology orfoUow aUnear sequential structure in their experiments. See for example Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar (1986), Latour (1987) and David Gooding (1990). Gooding (1990, pp. 4-8) notes that philosophers and AI researchers tend to consult only published papers or text-books and take scientists own narratives as realistic accounts. .. ignoring the extent to which scientists accounts are reconstructions rather than records hence they miss what scientist do in reality. 

Alan Irwin, Steve Woolgar, and other members of CRICT at Brunei University helped me think about the tensions between local and expert knowledge. Their initial support was particularly helpful as 1 attempted to make sense of British miners narratives during the earliest phases of my research. 

Gilbert and Woolgar, 1974. G. Nigel Gilbert and Steve Woolgar. The Quantitative Study of Science An Examination of the Literature . Science Studies 4 279-294. 

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