PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE
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Does electronic communication make any difference to the nature of expertise? Speaker(s): Harry Collins
Abstract: I introduce `The Periodic Table of Expertises' (Collins and Evans 2007). The classification is driven by the idea of tacit knowledge. Its most important division is between the expertise of those who have acquired tacit knowledge pertaining to a specialism as a result of social interaction with the ... read more
Date: 10/09/2008 - 10:00 am
Collection: Science in the 21st Century
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Sociology of scientific knowledge: The case of gravitational waves Speaker(s): Harry Collins
Abstract: Richard Feynman is said to have said that philosophy of science is of no more use to scientists than ornithology is to birds. I will describe how a sociologist looks at the search for gravitational waves. Is it ornithology to birds?
Date: 22/11/2005 - 4:00 pm
Series: Colloquium
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