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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... policy . Specifically , it first appeared in a critical review in the American Political Science Review of the game theorist Oskar Morgenstern's The Question of National Defense 4. The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies.
Steve Fuller. the game theorist Oskar Morgenstern's The Question of National Defense . At the time , " technoscience ... questions about the relative merits of particular frameworks vis- à - vis the reasons we might have for wanting to do ...
... question . I focus on the role played by STS's preference for Thomas Kuhn over Karl Mannheim as a source of both normative orienta- tion and sociological imagination . The result , quite unwittingly from Kuhn's own standpoint , has ...
... question . However , by the late - eighteenth century , the prospect of class mobility led the philosophes of the Enlightenment to tinker with Plato by suggesting that these different forms of knowledge could be ordered according to the ...
... question seems not to have been asked in the past because sociologists had been operating with an equivocal sense of " consequences " : scientists were being 14. The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies Science as a Special ...
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 |