Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES) at Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written 17 previous books including the well-known Golem series on science. Harry Collins is continuing his research on the nature of scientific knowledge, on the analysis of expertise and on the sociology of gravitational wave detection.
23 Ebooks by Harry Collins
Harry Collins: Are We All Scientific Experts Now?
To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists
were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good.
More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures …
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€12.99
Harry Collins: Artifictional Intelligence
Recent startling successes in machine intelligence using a technique called ‘deep learning’ seem to blur the line between human and machine as never before. Are computers on the cusp of becoming so …
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€16.99
Harry Collins & Robert Evans: Why Democracies Need Science
We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The …
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€17.99
Harry Collins & Robert Evans: Why Democracies Need Science
We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The …
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€17.99
Harry Collins & Robert Evans: Bad Call
How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are-referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accuracy maintained.Good call or bad call, referees and …
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€100.61
Harry Collins: Gravity’s Kiss
A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves.Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of …
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€50.30
Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch: Golem at Large
In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know About Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature …
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€20.03
Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch: Golem at Large
In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know about Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature …
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€18.78
Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch: Golem at Large
In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know about Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature …
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€18.75
Harry Collins & Robert Evans: Experts and the Will of the People
The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy …
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€69.54
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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€61.29
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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€41.10
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: 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
Jed Z. Buchwald: Einstein Was Right
An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational waves In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime …
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€42.99
Harry Collins & Martin Kusch: Shape of Actions
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel …
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€74.65
Olga Amsterdamska & Edward J. Hackett: Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
A comprehensive and authoritative overview of current research, major theoretical perspectives, and new research directions in the study of science, technology, and society.Science and Technology …
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€188.38
Michael E. Gorman: Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise
A proposal for a new framework for fostering collaborations across disciplines, addressing both theory and practical applications.Cross-disciplinary collaboration increasingly characterizes today’s …
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€80.38
Ulrike Felt & Rayvon Fouche: Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing …
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€198.86
