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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... interpret their documents , and propose explana- tions for their activities that make sense of them , given other things we know about human beings . All of this may sound pretty harmless , but it actually took a while even for ...
... interpret what the knowers said as either a strategic recoding ( French ) or an unwitting distortion ( German ) of their com- mon reality . However , Merton's evidence for the normative structure of sci- ence was not based on this ...
... interpreting Mannheim as juxta- posing two equally valid methods for evaluating knowledge claims , with " unmasking " and " refuting " corresponding to " external " and " internal " approaches . The question for Hacking , then , is ...
... interpreting the " consequences " of such a framework in existential , not logical , terms . This led him before 1940 to exclude the natural sciences and mathematics from the purview of the sociol- ogy of knowledge . But after 1940 , he ...
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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 |