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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... distinction between teacher and student that replaces much of this democratic brutality with smug elitism - i.e . , intimate knowledge of the texts worth knowing . Nevertheless , the knowledge production process turns out to be much the ...
... distinctions should have defined the terms of the Science Wars in the first place . On Hacking's telling , they amount to little more than sophisticated name - calling . Here lies the blindspot in Hacking's account — his generally anti ...
... distinction between " unmasking " and " refuting " from Mannheim's original demarcation of the sociology of knowledge from epistemology . [ The unmasking ] turn of mind ... does not seek to refute , negate , or call in doubt certain ...
... distinctions into alternating phases of his model of scientific change : normal and revolu- tionary . The result neutralized the normatively charged language in which both the Enlightenment and the positivist accounts of rationality had ...
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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 |