『Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life』

Theodore M. Porter
(1996年刊行,Princeton University Press, Princeton, xiv+310 pp., ISBN:0691029083 [pbk] → 版元ページ

翻訳:セオドア・M・ポーター[藤垣裕子訳]『数値と客観性:科学と社会における信頼の獲得』(2013年9月20日発行,みすず書房,東京,316+lxxiv pp.,本体価格6,000円,ISBN:9784622077817版元ページ).

【目次】
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii


Introduction: Cultures of Objectivity 3

Part I: Power in Numbers 9

Chapter 1: A World of Artifice 11
Chapter 2: How Social Numbers Are Made Valid 33
Chapter 3: Economic Measurement and the Values of Science 49
Chapter 4: The Political Philosophy of Quantification 73

Part II: Technologies of Trust 87

Chapter 5: Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries 89
Chapter 6: French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy 114
Chapter 7: U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis 148

Part III: Political and Scientific Communities 191

Chapter 8: Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines 193
Chapter 9: Is Science Made by Communities? 217


Notes 233
Bibliography 269
Index 303