PLACING THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE - HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE LOCATION OF SCIENCE

Over the past two decades broadly geographical sensibilities have beco me prominent in the academic study of science. An account is given of tensions in science studies between transcendentalist conceptions of t ruth and emerging localist perspectives on the making, meaning and eva luation of scientific knowledge. The efficient spread of scientific kn owledge is not a phenomenon that argues against the applicability of g eographical sensibilities towards science but actually calls for an ev en more vigorous project in the geography of knowledge.