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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... social transformation ? In what follows , it should become clear that I regard STS as a vocation that is also a vehicle for social transformation . My own project of social epistemology presupposes just such an image of STS ( Fuller and ...
... Social Studies of Science , Science , Technology and Human Val- ues , and the reviews journal , Metascience . Its ... social epistemology aims to recover and extend the ground common to 8. The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies.
Steve Fuller. epistemology aims to recover and extend the ground common to the Enlight- enment , positivism , and postmodernism - three movements that are typically seen as centrifugally related to one another . In short , I am a social ...
... social sciences retains this 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 ...
... social sciences retains this 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 ...
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 |