This is the first volume to bring together philosophers, sociologists and scientists to explore and examine the role of practices in human activity.

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory will be of invaluable to all those interested in the role that practices play in our lives as well as across a large number of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural theory, history and anthropology. Barry Barnes, University of Exeter, UK, Jeff Coulter, Boston University, USA, Theodore R. Schatzki, University of Kentucky, USA, Laurent Thevenot, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes,

I. Practices and Social Orders 1. Practices as Collective Action Barry Barnes 2. Human Practices and the Observability of the 'Macrosocial' Jeff Coulter 3. Practice Mind-ed Orders Theodore R. Schatzki 4. Pragmatic Regimes Governing the Engagement Laurent Thevenot 5. What
Anchors Cultural Practices Ann Swidler II. Inside
Practices 6. Wittgenstein and the Priority of Practice David Bloor 7. What is Tacit Knowledge H.M. Collins 8, Throwing Out the Tacit Rule Book: Learning and Practices Stephen Turner 9. Ethnomethodology and the Logic of
Practice Michael Lynch
III. Posthumanist Challenges 10. How Heidegger Defends the Possibility of a Correspondence Theory of Truth with Respect to the Entities of Natural Science Huber L. Dreyfus 11. Practice and Posthumanism: Social Theory and a History of Agency Andrew Pickering 12. Objectual Practice Karin Knorr Cetina 13. Two Concepts of Practices Joseph Rouse 14. Derridian Dispersion and Heideggerian Articulation: General Tendencies
in the Practices that Govern Intelligibilty Charles Spinosa Bibilography Index