The Philosophy of Science and Technology StudiesRoutledge, 2013 M10 18 - 208 pages As 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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... discipline , philosophy uses the classroom as the research site . This applies equally , though somewhat differ- ently , to contemporary analytic and continental philosophers . Analytic philos- ophers have been more eager or able to ...
... discipline " of STS . ) Instead I have focused on topics and claims that arise specifically from the self - under- standing of the field called " Science and Technology Studies . " It was through this field that the quarter - century ...
... disciplines at the cost of keeping their rationality an empirically open question . After all , the traditionally " purest " of the sciences — mathematics and physics — were inte- gral to what were shaping up to be some of the most ...
... discipline or sub - disci- pline , not a mere research team ( e.g. , Pickering 1984 ) . And while few STS practitioners openly endorse the model of scientific change presented in Structure , little effort has been made to find a ...
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Contents
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A Sociology of Science that | 28 |
Philosophy In Of and Beyond the Scientific Field Site | 45 |
STS by Another Name? | 79 |
Beyond Puritans and Gnostics | 115 |
Cultivating a Life in STS | 157 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Index | 189 |