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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... Sociology of Knowledge : The Philosophical Backdrop to STS ix 1 11 1. Philosophical Foundations and Main Sociological Traditions 2. Science as a Special Problem for the Sociology of Knowledge 3. Kuhn's Checkered Legacy to STS 11 14 21 4 ...
... Sociology Department in Durham University , England , which in December 1995 enabled me to organize the first conference in the Science Wars that brought together representatives of both the scientific and STS communities . This first ...
... sociology of religion . The sociologist would simply not be doing her job , which is to study science as a concrete human activity . What we find is that science is not a clearly defined activity . Rather , it is many different ...
... Sociology of Science and Technology , " " Methodological Approaches in Science and Technology Studies , " " Organization of Science and Technology , " " Politics of Science and Technology , " " Science and Technology Policy , " and ...
... sociologists whose limited sense of context fails to reach beyond their own " intertextuality . " Left to its own devices , STS tries to create as much distance as possible from its disputatious philosophical past . Thus , the field ...
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 |