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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... edition of the British liberal broadsheet newspaper, The Independent, on 28 June 1998, in the run-up to “the great debate” between Alan Sokal and STS's most illustrious champion, Bruno Latour, at the London School of Economics.
... edition of the British liberal broadsheet newspaper, The Independent, on 28 June 1998, in the run-up to “the great debate” between Alan Sokal and STS's most illustrious champion, Bruno Latour, at the London School of Economics.
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While failing to engage with the most philosophically challenging issues of STS, they manage to reassure bien pensant readers that nothing in the pages of, say, Bloor (1976) or Latour (1987) had not been already laid to rest in ...
While failing to engage with the most philosophically challenging issues of STS, they manage to reassure bien pensant readers that nothing in the pages of, say, Bloor (1976) or Latour (1987) had not been already laid to rest in ...
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Readers curious about my own position on the development of STS can turn to the semi-autobiographical Fuller (2000e) or the transcript of my own debate with Latour (Barron2003). In most general terms, my project of social epistemology ...
Readers curious about my own position on the development of STS can turn to the semi-autobiographical Fuller (2000e) or the transcript of my own debate with Latour (Barron2003). In most general terms, my project of social epistemology ...
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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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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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