Malcolm Ashmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 236629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm Ashmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashmore |
| SIGNATURE | ASHMORE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reflexivity in Science and Technology Studies
Magnum Opus
Quite the most noticeable thing about this book at first apprehension is its size (6x9x2 inches) and weight (2 lb; the paperback) and length (870 pp.). BIG then, and heavy enough to sink the most well-disposed reviewer's heart. Even a casual reader (can a book of these dimensions have a casual reader?)2 might balk at the labour it promises. Like Tolstoy's War and Peace or Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Collins's Gravity's Shadow could ga…
Lost in the Mall with Mesmer and Wundt
This article analyzes the demarcations made within psychology as a feature of the "memory wars"-the current controversy around "recovered" or "false" memory. As it is played out inside professional psychology, the dispute features clinical practitioners acting largely as proponents of recovered memory and experimentalists as proponents of false memory. Tracing a genealogy of this dispute back to a pair of original sites (Mesmer's salon and Wundt'…
It's a scream
Regulating criticism
This commentary identifies a range of flaws and contradictions in Parker’s critical realist position and his critique of relativism. In particular we highlight: (1) a range of basic errors in formulating the nature of relativism; (2) contradictions in the understanding and use of rhetoric; (3) problematic recruitment of the oppressed to support his argument; (4) tensions arising from the distinction between working in and against psychology. We c…
More Sauce Please! The Politics of SSK
In this Introduction, we attempt to convey something of the angst we have experienced at various times during the long drawn out process of being commissioned as Editors of this Special Issue, of commissioning the authors and thereafter variously exhorting, encouraging and congratulating them (at a crucial stage, when the whole thing had got too big and the consulting referees had reported, being obliged to reject the efforts of some potential co…
Ending Up On the Wrong Side
In this paper, I look at the reflexive political implications for the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) of two incipient or actual public disputes about when certain items of scientific knowledge should have been known, and consequently if and when certain actions should have been taken on the basis of this knowledge: (1) The case of a `dying smoker' suing a tobacco company for not printing health warnings on cigarette packets in the 1960s,…
Fraud by Numbers
Research Article| April 01 1995 Fraud by Numbers: Quantitative Rhetoric in the Piltdown Forgery Discovery Malcolm Ashmore Malcolm Ashmore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (2): 591–618. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-2-591 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Malcolm Ashmore; Fraud by Numbers: Quantitative Rhetoric in the …
Death and Furniture
In the shadow of the deconstructed metanarratives : Baudrillard, Latour and the end of realist epistemology
Humans and Others, Agents and Things
The Bottom Line
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 1994
The Theatre of the Blind
One of the most notorious cases of full-blown scientific error is the `non-existent' form of radiation known as `N-rays', discovered in the spring of 1903 by the French physicist Blondlot. After a short but full and interesting life, N-rays were killed off (so the story goes) in the autumn of 1904 by the American physicist Wood, who, after visiting Blondlot's laboratory in Nancy, published in Nature a damning report of what he found (or didn't fi…
Science as Practice and Culture
Reflexive Epistemology
The reflexive thesis
This unusually innovative book treats reflexivity, not as a philosophical conundrum, but as a practical issue that arises in the course of scholarly research and argument. In order to demonstrate the concrete and consequential nature of reflexivity, Malcolm Ashmore concentrates on an area in which reflexive problems are acute: the sociology of scientific knowledge. At the forefront of recent radical changes in our understanding of science, this i…
Colonizing the Mind
Health economists see their practice as the application of economics to the field of human health. One of the forms that the practical application of health economics takes is the attempt to persuade professionals in health care to accept and implement economists' recommendations for changes in their practice. This paper examines one such attempt by means of a detailed textual analysis of `The Essentials of Health Economics', a major series of ar…
Measuring the Quality of Life
The paper which follows takes the form of a dialogue between a sociological voice and an unidentified, questioning voice. The two voices explore some of the tasks involved in, and difficulties generated by, the attempt to apply social science to practical issues. The discussion focuses on the area of health economics and, particularly, on recent efforts to provide measures of the quality of life that can be used to solve administrative problems w…
Science as Intellectual Property
Death and Furniture
In the shadow of the deconstructed metanarratives : Baudrillard, Latour and the end of realist epistemology
The Theatre of the Blind
One of the most notorious cases of full-blown scientific error is the `non-existent' form of radiation known as `N-rays', discovered in the spring of 1903 by the French physicist Blondlot. After a short but full and interesting life, N-rays were killed off (so the story goes) in the autumn of 1904 by the American physicist Wood, who, after visiting Blondlot's laboratory in Nancy, published in Nature a damning report of what he found (or didn't fi…
More Sauce Please! The Politics of SSK
In this Introduction, we attempt to convey something of the angst we have experienced at various times during the long drawn out process of being commissioned as Editors of this Special Issue, of commissioning the authors and thereafter variously exhorting, encouraging and congratulating them (at a crucial stage, when the whole thing had got too big and the consulting referees had reported, being obliged to reject the efforts of some potential co…
It's a scream
The Bottom Line
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 1994
Colonizing the Mind
Health economists see their practice as the application of economics to the field of human health. One of the forms that the practical application of health economics takes is the attempt to persuade professionals in health care to accept and implement economists' recommendations for changes in their practice. This paper examines one such attempt by means of a detailed textual analysis of `The Essentials of Health Economics', a major series of ar…
Ending Up On the Wrong Side
In this paper, I look at the reflexive political implications for the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) of two incipient or actual public disputes about when certain items of scientific knowledge should have been known, and consequently if and when certain actions should have been taken on the basis of this knowledge: (1) The case of a `dying smoker' suing a tobacco company for not printing health warnings on cigarette packets in the 1960s,…
Lost in the Mall with Mesmer and Wundt
This article analyzes the demarcations made within psychology as a feature of the "memory wars"-the current controversy around "recovered" or "false" memory. As it is played out inside professional psychology, the dispute features clinical practitioners acting largely as proponents of recovered memory and experimentalists as proponents of false memory. Tracing a genealogy of this dispute back to a pair of original sites (Mesmer's salon and Wundt'…
Humans and Others, Agents and Things
Measuring the Quality of Life
The paper which follows takes the form of a dialogue between a sociological voice and an unidentified, questioning voice. The two voices explore some of the tasks involved in, and difficulties generated by, the attempt to apply social science to practical issues. The discussion focuses on the area of health economics and, particularly, on recent efforts to provide measures of the quality of life that can be used to solve administrative problems w…
Regulating criticism
This commentary identifies a range of flaws and contradictions in Parker’s critical realist position and his critique of relativism. In particular we highlight: (1) a range of basic errors in formulating the nature of relativism; (2) contradictions in the understanding and use of rhetoric; (3) problematic recruitment of the oppressed to support his argument; (4) tensions arising from the distinction between working in and against psychology. We c…
Fraud by Numbers
Research Article| April 01 1995 Fraud by Numbers: Quantitative Rhetoric in the Piltdown Forgery Discovery Malcolm Ashmore Malcolm Ashmore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (2): 591–618. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-2-591 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Malcolm Ashmore; Fraud by Numbers: Quantitative Rhetoric in the …
Science as Practice and Culture
Science as Intellectual Property
Colonizing the Mind
Health economists see their practice as the application of economics to the field of human health. One of the forms that the practical application of health economics takes is the attempt to persuade professionals in health care to accept and implement economists' recommendations for changes in their practice. This paper examines one such attempt by means of a detailed textual analysis of `The Essentials of Health Economics', a major series of ar…
Measuring the Quality of Life
The paper which follows takes the form of a dialogue between a sociological voice and an unidentified, questioning voice. The two voices explore some of the tasks involved in, and difficulties generated by, the attempt to apply social science to practical issues. The discussion focuses on the area of health economics and, particularly, on recent efforts to provide measures of the quality of life that can be used to solve administrative problems w…
The reflexive thesis
This unusually innovative book treats reflexivity, not as a philosophical conundrum, but as a practical issue that arises in the course of scholarly research and argument. In order to demonstrate the concrete and consequential nature of reflexivity, Malcolm Ashmore concentrates on an area in which reflexive problems are acute: the sociology of scientific knowledge. At the forefront of recent radical changes in our understanding of science, this i…
Reflexive Epistemology
The Theatre of the Blind
One of the most notorious cases of full-blown scientific error is the `non-existent' form of radiation known as `N-rays', discovered in the spring of 1903 by the French physicist Blondlot. After a short but full and interesting life, N-rays were killed off (so the story goes) in the autumn of 1904 by the American physicist Wood, who, after visiting Blondlot's laboratory in Nancy, published in Nature a damning report of what he found (or didn't fi…
Science as Practice and Culture
Humans and Others, Agents and Things
The Bottom Line
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 1994
Fraud by Numbers
Research Article| April 01 1995 Fraud by Numbers: Quantitative Rhetoric in the Piltdown Forgery Discovery Malcolm Ashmore Malcolm Ashmore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (2): 591–618. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-2-591 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Malcolm Ashmore; Fraud by Numbers: Quantitative Rhetoric in the …
Death and Furniture
In the shadow of the deconstructed metanarratives : Baudrillard, Latour and the end of realist epistemology
More Sauce Please! The Politics of SSK
In this Introduction, we attempt to convey something of the angst we have experienced at various times during the long drawn out process of being commissioned as Editors of this Special Issue, of commissioning the authors and thereafter variously exhorting, encouraging and congratulating them (at a crucial stage, when the whole thing had got too big and the consulting referees had reported, being obliged to reject the efforts of some potential co…
Ending Up On the Wrong Side
In this paper, I look at the reflexive political implications for the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) of two incipient or actual public disputes about when certain items of scientific knowledge should have been known, and consequently if and when certain actions should have been taken on the basis of this knowledge: (1) The case of a `dying smoker' suing a tobacco company for not printing health warnings on cigarette packets in the 1960s,…
Regulating criticism
This commentary identifies a range of flaws and contradictions in Parker’s critical realist position and his critique of relativism. In particular we highlight: (1) a range of basic errors in formulating the nature of relativism; (2) contradictions in the understanding and use of rhetoric; (3) problematic recruitment of the oppressed to support his argument; (4) tensions arising from the distinction between working in and against psychology. We c…
It's a scream
Lost in the Mall with Mesmer and Wundt
This article analyzes the demarcations made within psychology as a feature of the "memory wars"-the current controversy around "recovered" or "false" memory. As it is played out inside professional psychology, the dispute features clinical practitioners acting largely as proponents of recovered memory and experimentalists as proponents of false memory. Tracing a genealogy of this dispute back to a pair of original sites (Mesmer's salon and Wundt'…
Magnum Opus
Quite the most noticeable thing about this book at first apprehension is its size (6x9x2 inches) and weight (2 lb; the paperback) and length (870 pp.). BIG then, and heavy enough to sink the most well-disposed reviewer's heart. Even a casual reader (can a book of these dimensions have a casual reader?)2 might balk at the labour it promises. Like Tolstoy's War and Peace or Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Collins's Gravity's Shadow could ga…
Reflexivity in Science and Technology Studies
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