Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science,
is rather remote from the history of science and from historical
concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late
nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel,
alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather
fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes
brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science
and historians of science alike contributed their share to what
this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize
epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so
concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities.
Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and
tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all
their diversity take shape and change over time.
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