Cultural Competence and Scientific Knowledge

  • Harry Collins
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Abstract

An important contribution to the study of expertise has come from the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. We have selected an excerpt from Harry Collins’ book Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines (MIT Press, 1990) to represent this body of work. This introduction locates the paper within its broader intellectual framework.

Keywords

Scientific Knowledge Gravity Wave Versus Versus Versus Tacit Knowledge Cultural Competence 
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