Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science

Léna Soler is Maître de conférences in the Laboratoire d’Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie – Archives Henri Poincaré at the Université de Lorraine, France.Sjoerd D. Zwart is Assistant Professor at the Universities of Technology in Delft and Eindhoven, The Netherlands.Michael Lynch is Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, USA. Vincent Israel-Jost is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Laboratoire d’Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie – Archives Henri Poincaré at the Université de Lorraine, France.

'This is a terrific collection, which has brought together contributions by the people who have thought hardest about practices in science. It is essential reading for anyone who employs this problematic concept in the study of science. Its special virtue is that it brings social studies of science and the philosophy of science back together, and in a fruitful and interesting way.' – Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USA‘A real strength of this collection is its extended introduction with a highly readable but well-documented and thorough reconstruction of the theoretical development of the Practice Turn and ensuing critical challenges in Actor Network Theory and the resistance against Popper and Lakatos. The editors retrace the origins of the practice turn in both sociological and philosophical approaches to science, and likewise reconstruct three shifts affiliated with these changes: the move away from a priori or idealized understandings of science, present-time foci for scientific discourse, and normative conceptual models for science.’ – Lindsay Parker in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

• Introduction Léna Soler, Sjoerd Zwart, Michael Lynch, and Vincent Israël-Jost 1. Some Notions of Action Jean-Michel Salanskis; Commentary Jean-Luc Gangloff and Catherine Allamel-Raffin 2. Epistemic Activities and Systems of Practice: Units of Analysis in Philosophy of Science After the Practice Turn HasokChang; Commentary Léna Soler andRégis Catinaud 3. From Normative to Descriptive and Back: Science and Technology Studies and the Practice Turn Michael Lynch; Commentary Vincent Israel-Jost andKatherina Kinzel 4. Chemistry’s Periodic Law: Rethinking Representation and Explanation after the Turn to Practice Andrea I. Woody; Commentary Régis Catinaud and Frédéric Wieber 5. Epistemic Dependence in Contemporary Science: Practices and Malpractices Hanne Andersen; Commentary Cyrille Imbert 6. Values in Engineering: From Object-worlds to Socio-technical Systems Louis Bucciarelli; Commentary Sjoerd D. Zwart 7. The Impact of the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice on the Philosophy of Mathematics Jean-Paul van Bendegem; Commentary Caroline Jullien and Léna Soler 8. Observing Mathematical Practices as a Key to Mining our Sources and Conducting Conceptual History. Division in Ancient China as a Case Study Karine Chemla; Commentary Amirouche Moktefi, Mélissa Arneton, Catherine Allamel-Raffin 9. Scientific Practice and the Scientific Image Joseph Rouse; Commentary Emiliano Trizio