Why would postcolonial scholars incorporate recent histories and philosophies of science in their reading lists?

One answer is that postcolonial historians' research agendas address many queries raised among historians of science. Inscribing Science's index suggests that Donna Haraway is as central to the book's intellectual project as are Thomas Kuhn and Charles Babbage (all three merit two entries apiece). €¢ Inscribing Science places texts -- the material of communication -- at the center of scientific thinking.

In the introduction, Paul Feyerabend's Against Method is credited with urging scholars to trace knowledge-production, remaining sensitive to scientific practices' "concerns about tacit knowledge, experimenter's regress, interpretive flexibility, and negotiated closure of debate . . .

Contributing to newer accounts of science as a disunified, heterogeneous synergy of activities." Steve Woolgar and Bruno Latour took up this challenge with Laboratory Life. €¢ Disunited and heterogeneous, laboratory life and knowledge-production activities lead to the printing of texts.

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