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(1994) Trends in the historiography of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
In this paper I will attempt to consider the connection between epistemology and the sociology of knowledge by sketching the historical development and I want to show how both come to bear upon, in different ways, similar issues in mathematical and scientific knowledge. Mathematics in fact becomes a touchstone for these attempts as a constructivist epistemology that is pointedly expressed in mathematical cognition, substitutes traditional empiricism, nominalism and behaviorism thereby providing a basis for understanding that connection.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3596-4_22
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Otte, M. (1994)., Historiographical trends in the social history of mathematics and science, in K. Gavroglu, J. Christianidis & E. Nicolaidis (eds.), Trends in the historiography of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 295-315.
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