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.