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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... physicists at the University of Kansas , Adrian Mellott and Phil Baringer . Here I debated the well - intentioned , if ultimately misguided , Alan Sokal . In 1998 and 1999 , the UK's Economic and Social Research Council funded two ...
Steve Fuller. who consume science by reading The Tao of Physics, watching “Tomorrow's World,” and eating fat-free muffins. Where scientists see only the potential for bad puns, technical terms like “relativity,” “uncertainty,” and “chaos ...
... physicist , Alan Sokal , published an article designed expose what he regarded as the absurdities advanced by the field . Noto- riously he managed to publish the piece in a leading cultural studies journal , the editors of which failed ...
... physics , biology , etc. , who often pride themselves more on their knowledge of the special science on whose behalf they philosophize than on their knowledge of philosophy ( Fuller 2000b , chap . 6 ) . Some have even become ...
... physics, Pareto declared that rationality is self-explanatory as the path of least resistance between ends and means, while sociology is needed to explain the friction of bias and error that usually gets in the way. The “rational choice ...
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 |