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Gone are the days when one could trust that scientific knowledge was the product of a set of self-centered, independent and clearly identifiable endeavors of the collective mind, or, on the contrary, when one could create scandal or shatter beliefs by demonstrating that this was not the case. The old antinomy between pure vs. bounded knowledge has given way to an extremely complex picture of how different types of knowledge are actually created, developed, accepted as valid and put to use by different people in different places. In this century, epistemology has largely moved from the search for the ultimate foundations of "true" knowledge to the empirical analyses of language or the history of scientific traditions and the organization of scientific communities . Sociologists of science, in the meantime, have tried to penetrate as deeply as possible in the ways the so-called scientific knowledge is actually produced, and some authors have even proclaimed their kind of sociology to be the only epistemology that could actually exist .
Gone are the days when one could trust that scientific knowledge was the product of a set of self-centered, independent and clearly identifiable endeavors of the collective mind, or, on the contrary, when one could create scandal or shatter beliefs by demonstrating that this was not the case. The old antinomy between pure vs. bounded knowledge has given way to an extremely complex picture of how different types of knowledge are actually created, developed, accepted as valid and put to use by different people in different places. In this century, epistemology has largely moved from the search for the ultimate foundations of "true" knowledge to the empirical analyses of language or the history of scientific traditions and the organization of scientific communities . Sociologists of science, in the meantime, have tried to penetrate as deeply as possible in the ways the so-called scientific knowledge is actually produced, and some authors have even proclaimed their kind of sociology to be the only epistemology that could actually exist .
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