Harry Collins is distinguished research professor of sociology at Cardiff University; director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science; and author of many books, including Gravity”s Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
6 Ebooks by Collins Harry Collins
Collins Harry Collins: Gravity’s Ghost
In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist. We are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation, which is generated when stars explode or collide and a portion of their mass becomes energy …
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Collins Harry Collins & Evans Robert Evans: Rethinking Expertise
What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public …
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Collins Harry Collins & Pinch Trevor Pinch: Dr. Golem
A creature of Jewish mythology, a golem is an animated being made by man from clay and water who knows neither his own strength nor the extent of his ignorance. Like science and technology, the …
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€37.56
Collins Harry Collins: Gravity’s Shadow
According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation. When stars explode or collide, a portion of their mass becomes energy that disturbs the very fabric of the …
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€77.49
Collins Harry Collins: Tacit and Explicit Knowledge
Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can’t explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called …
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€34.92
Collins Harry Collins & Labinger Jay A. Labinger: One Culture?
So far the "Science Wars" have generated far more heat than light. Combatants from one or the other of what C. P. Snow famously called "the two cultures" (science versus the arts …
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