Introduction : the social dimensions of science / Ernan McMullin -- Peirce on the social and historical dimensions of science / C.F. Delaney -- The origins of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge / Fritz Ringer -- Social thought and social action / Martin Hollis -- Good science as bad history : from order of knowing to order of being / Thomas Nickles -- Statistical language, statistical truth and statistical reason : the self-authentification of a style of scientific reasoning / Ian Hacking -- Practical reason and the construction of knowledge : the lifeworld of Haber-Bosch / Timothy Lenoir -- Essential tensions-- phase two : feminist, philosophical, and social studies of science / Helen E. Longino -- The ballad of Pons and Fleischmann : experiment and narrative in the (un)making of cold fusion / Thomas F. Gieryn -- Authority, deference, and the role of individual reason / Philip Kitcher -- One more turn after the social turn / Bruno Latour.