Cover of Memory practices in the sciences

Book 2006

Memory practices in the sciences

5 readers

Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
Published
2006
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Knowledge, Theory of
  • Theory of Knowledge
  • Information technology
  • Science, philosophy
  • Représentation des connaissances
  • Connaissance, Théorie de la

The ways we hold knowledge about the past shapes how we tell stories about it. Bowker looks at the relation of our information structures to our information and maintains that over the past 200 years information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge.