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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... perspective today. It was also how positivistically inclined philosophers of science from Hans Reichenbach (1938) to Larry Laudan (1977) divided the intellectual labor between the epistemology and the sociology of knowledge. In each ...
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... perspective toward society reminiscent of American pragmatism , a point that was observed sympathetically at the time by the young C. Wright Mills ( 1939 ) . Indeed , Mannheim's shift helped seed Mills's political critique of science as ...
... perspectives from which the visual image is composed . Thus , the viewer could appreciate at once the constructed nature of the taken- for - granted image through the disorientation that results from its literal deconstruction . In ...
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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 |