02083nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002300224082001200247245011700259264005200376300005900428336002600487337002600513338003600539500007300575520091500648650002301563700004401586700004501630776003501675856004701710CR9780511762154UkCbUP20171019112331.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||100506s2010||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511762154 (ebook)  z9780521196543 (hardback)  z9780521159586 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aB105.F3 bH69 201100a00122200aHow Well Do Facts Travel? :bThe Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge /cEdited by Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2010.  a1 online resource (488 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThis book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of travelling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make narratives, arguments and evidence. Rather, their extraordinary abilities to travel well shows when, how and why facts can be used to build further knowledge beyond and away from their sites of original production and intended use. 0aFacts (Philosophy)1 aHowlett, Peter,eeditor of compilation.1 aMorgan, Mary S.,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z978052119654340uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511762154