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Author Isaac, Joel, 1978-

Title Working knowledge : making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn / Joel Isaac.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  300.7117444 Is7w 2012    ---  Available
Description 314 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: crafting knowledge in the human sciences -- The interstitial academy : Harvard and the rise of the American university -- Making a case : the Harvard Pareto circle -- What do the science-makers do? : migrations of operationism -- Radical translation : W. V. Quine and the reception of logical empiricism -- The levellers : Harvard's social scientists from World War to Cold War -- Lessons of the revolution : history, sociology, and philosophy of science -- Epilogue: the great disembedding -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Social sciences -- Research -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Harvard University -- History.
Universities and colleges -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History.
Added Title Making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
ISBN 9780674065741 (alk. paper)
0674065743 (alk. paper)
Standard No. 7206405

 
    
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