Philosophy, Epistemology

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

Name: Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
Author: Geoffrey C. Bowker
ISBN: 9780262024617

by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star

Write a review

Synopsis

Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world.

About the Author, Geoffrey C. Bowker

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet. Log in to write one.

Book Details

Published

October 1, 1999

Publisher

MIT Press

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

9780262024617

More by Geoffrey C. Bowker

Memory Practices in the Sciences

Science on the Run Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940

Similar books

Unpopular Essays

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge

The Analysis of Mind

Persons and Things

Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory

Fiction and Metaphysics

Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science

Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy