The Philosophy of Science and Technology StudiesAs 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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... that is only because they see in STS research “applications” or “extensions” of ideas that are already present in Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, and others. From an STS standpoint, the patronizing ...
Finally, chapters 5 and 6 consider from, respectively, a historico-philosophical and a more explicitly political standpoint, the emerging challenges to both “secularize” and “re-enchant” science as it comes to lose the state-protected ...
I focus on the role played by STS's preference for Thomas Kuhn over Karl Mannheim as a source of both normative orientation and sociological imagination. The result, quite unwittingly from Kuhn's own standpoint, has rendered STS a ...
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Contents
Philosophy In Of and Beyond the Scientific Field Site | |
STS by Another Name? | |
Beyond Puritans and Gnostics | |
The Secularization of Science as a Precondition to its Reenchantment | |
Gnostic Scientism | |
Prolegomena to the Hidden History of Gnostic Biology | |
A Failed Scientific Defense of Human Freedom | |
Meeting Webers Challenge and Transcending the Science Wars | |
Cultivating a Life in STS 29 Introduction Beware of Greeks Bearing Historical Precedents | |
Some Institutional Alternatives | |
Institutionalizing the Public Understanding of Science in Consensus Conferences | |
The Prospects for Scientific Citizenship Today | |
Toward a Rhetorical Reclamation of Science | |
Bibliography | |
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| Title | The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies |
| Author | Steve Fuller |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1135375399, 9781135375393 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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