That's fair, but sounds a little bit like a strawman to me, because I thought the belief that science produces absolute certainty to be rare, at least among scientists. Also, for what scientific endeavor is social constructivism useful?
Oh, sure, absolutely; but Bayesian rationalism comes with strong metaphysical claims of optimality and correctness (certainty at the methodological level, not the object level) that cannot be sustained.
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Unfortunately there’s no good intro text for the ethnomethodology of science. A nice example of the work is this one on the first optical observation of a pulsar. However, the jargon is dense at the analytic framework is so alien to what you are used to that it may be opaque…
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Citation here, I can’t find the original journal page off hand: http://emcawiki.net/bibtex/browser.php?key=Garfinkel1981&bib=emca.bib …
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