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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... inquiry defy easy philosophical encapsulation . Nevertheless , the provenance of " technoscience " alone is quite telling . According to the Oxford English Dictio- nary , which only started to include " technoscience ” in 2002 , the ...
... inquiry that asks embarrassing questions about the relative merits of particular frameworks vis- à - vis the reasons we might have for wanting to do STS research in the first place . In the blunt terms a purveyor of " perennial ...
... inquiry that cannot be easily assimi- lated into the ordinary philosophy curriculum . To be sure , this learned incapacity is not without its subtle strengths , as has been demonstrated with the onset of the Science Wars . Philosophers ...
... inquiry—organized resistance to the environment—to be valorized or pathologized? Are tribal religions and political ideologies instances of thought operating at a standard, as it were, “above” or “below” that of normal reasoning? Are ...
... inquiry has been , " How do societies come to acquire and maintain the knowledge they possess ? " The history of the sociology of knowledge is a tale of two traditions , French and German . Both came to fruition in the period 1890–1930 ...
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 |