Saw this pop up on one of the channels in Mastodon, and I thought I’d give it a quick look. I studied some of the work that was being done in the field of Science Studies during grad school, and it informed some of my writing and teaching while at university.
So a book that focussed on that would seem right up my alley…
(link here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/modelling-scientific-communities/1ED3515216067E40A37A72094EE3CB15 (free for the next two weeks))
…and it is, but it struck me as odd, as I flipped through the references at the back to see what fields the author was drawing on, and didn’t see much that I knew.
So what happens? Turns out, science is pretty big, and it’s possible to have multiple approaches to things, to look at this from the modelling perspective, and focus heavily on that material, and in so doing miss much of the work that has been previously been done, in fields directly related to the subject at hand.
So am I a little disappointed? Perhaps. I’ll still give it a read, because there is always something to learn from others perspectives and points of view. But I like to see the connections too.