Table of Contents

Explanation and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.- Strategic Research Sites for the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.- Experiment and Evidential Context: Their Early History and Background.- Experiment and Evidential Context — Funding the Link.- Consolidating the Link.- The Reception of Davis’s Results — When is a Contradiction Not a Contradiction?.- The Interpretative Flexibility of Evidential Contexts.- Conclusion — Evidential Contexts and Social Contexts.