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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Steve Fuller. 21. The Science Wars as Signaling the End of Scientific Puritanism 22. The Secularization of Science as a Precondition to its Re-enchantment 23. Re-enchanting Science with a Vengeance: Gnostic Scientism 24. Prolegomena to ...
... End of Scientific Puritanism 22. The Secularization of Science as a Precondition to its Re - enchantment 23. Re - enchanting Science with a Vengeance : Gnostic Scientism 115 122 127 24. Prolegomena to the Hidden History of Gnostic ...
... end of the Cold War , the amoralism of “ techno- science " remained but now transferred to a world in which the risk of nuclear war had been replaced by the uncertainty of the marketplace ( Latour 1987 , Callon 1998 ) . A studious non ...
... end of " knowledge " or " science " blissfully act as if nothing has changed . They con- tinue to shoehorn STS positions into preconceived categories of " relativism , ” " antirealism , " and even " skepticism . " ( This is the default ...
... ends and means, while sociology is needed to explain the friction of bias and error that usually gets in the way. The “rational choice” paradigm in the social sciences retains this perspective today. It was also how positivistically ...
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 |