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Article: SCIENCE, NONSENSE AND DAVID STOVE.
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- Quadrant
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- December 1, 1998
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Science studies has been a feature of academic life in English-speaking countries for more than fifty years. The term "science studies" refers not to science proper or to science as it is practised but to inquiries into the nature of science. People in the field have not been scientists per se but sociologists of science, historians of science, philosophers of scientific method and, most recently, people who engage in cultural studies of science. In other words, rather than a province of the physical sciences themselves, science studies is a domain within the humanities and social sciences.
The field began in the 1940s in the United States, Britain and Australia ...