The Philosophy of Science and Technology StudiesAs the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has become more established, it has increasingly hidden its philosophical roots. While the trend is typical of disciplines striving for maturity, Steve Fuller, a leading figure in the field, argues that STS has much to lose if it abandons philosophy. In his characteristically provocative style, he offers the first sustained treatment of the philosophical foundations of STS and suggests fruitful avenues for further research. With stimulating discussions of the Science Wars, the Intelligent Design Theory controversy, and theorists such as Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies is required reading for students and scholars in STS and the philosophy of science. |
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Kuhn's Checkered Legacy to STS 4. The Punch Line: A Sociology of Science that is not a Sociology of Knowledge 5. Relativism and the Illusion of Autonomy in Science 6. STS's Janus-faced Antirealism: Relativism versus Constructivism 7.
Kuhn's Checkered Legacy to STS 4. The Punch Line: A Sociology of Science that is not a Sociology of Knowledge 5. Relativism and the Illusion of Autonomy in Science 6. STS's Janus-faced Antirealism: Relativism versus Constructivism 7.
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I focus on the role played by STS's preference for Thomas Kuhn over Karl Mannheim as a source of both normative orientation and sociological imagination. The result, quite unwittingly from Kuhn's own standpoint, has rendered STS a ...
I focus on the role played by STS's preference for Thomas Kuhn over Karl Mannheim as a source of both normative orientation and sociological imagination. The result, quite unwittingly from Kuhn's own standpoint, has rendered STS a ...
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While the Fleck-Kuhn connection is somewhat tenuous, a clear legacy of the French tradition has been the “anthropologization” of the sociology of science, starting in the 1970s, especially through Latour and Woolgar (1986), ...
While the Fleck-Kuhn connection is somewhat tenuous, a clear legacy of the French tradition has been the “anthropologization” of the sociology of science, starting in the 1970s, especially through Latour and Woolgar (1986), ...
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Thomas Kuhn—still the philosopher of choice in public understandings of science—ill equips us to address this question because practitioners of a scientific paradigm are licensed to discuss the overall ends of their inquiry only once it ...
Thomas Kuhn—still the philosopher of choice in public understandings of science—ill equips us to address this question because practitioners of a scientific paradigm are licensed to discuss the overall ends of their inquiry only once it ...
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Here the extended legacy of the Vienna Circle—including Carnap, Popper, and to a large extent Kuhn—provides an instructive point of reference. In most general terms, the Vienna Circle regarded conceptual frameworks in a generally ...
Here the extended legacy of the Vienna Circle—including Carnap, Popper, and to a large extent Kuhn—provides an instructive point of reference. In most general terms, the Vienna Circle regarded conceptual frameworks in a generally ...
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Contents
Philosophy In Of and Beyond the Scientific Field Site | |
STS by Another Name? | |
Beyond Puritans and Gnostics | |
The Secularization of Science as a Precondition to its Reenchantment | |
Gnostic Scientism | |
Prolegomena to the Hidden History of Gnostic Biology | |
A Failed Scientific Defense of Human Freedom | |
Meeting Webers Challenge and Transcending the Science Wars | |
Cultivating a Life in STS 29 Introduction Beware of Greeks Bearing Historical Precedents | |
Some Institutional Alternatives | |
Institutionalizing the Public Understanding of Science in Consensus Conferences | |
The Prospects for Scientific Citizenship Today | |
Toward a Rhetorical Reclamation of Science | |
Bibliography | |
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| Title | The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies |
| Author | Steve Fuller |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1135375399, 9781135375393 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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