Working knowledge : making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn / Joel Isaac.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2012], ©2012.

314 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: crafting knowledge in the human sciences -- The interstitial academy : Harvard and the rise of the American university -- Making a case : the Harvard Pareto circle -- What do the science-makers do? : migrations of operationism -- Radical translation : W. V. Quine and the reception of logical empiricism -- The levellers : Harvard's social scientists from World War to Cold War -- Lessons of the revolution : history, sociology, and philosophy of science -- Epilogue: the great disembedding -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.