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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... Traditions 2. Science as a Special Problem for the Sociology of Knowledge 3. Kuhn's Checkered Legacy to STS 11 14 21 4. The Punch Line : A Sociology of Science that is not a Sociology of Knowledge 28 5. Relativism and the Illusion of ...
... tradition- ally has been provided by philosophy . In the last quarter century , STS has come into its own as an academic field . It now sports its own professional societies , journals , handbooks , degree pro- grams - not to mention ...
... traditions against each other : on the one hand , analytic philoso- phers are easily typecast as myth - makers whose normative theories of ratio- nality obscure the empirical character of scientific practice ; on the other , continental ...
... traditional themes in the sociology of knowledge and the philosophy of science . In chapter 3 , I examine in more detail the underlaboring philosophy that STS research encourages . Chapter 4 makes explicit the continuities between the ...
... traditions are themselves ambivalent on this point. This ambivalence has persisted through the history of the field, culminating in Berger and Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality (1967), which eclectically mixes the two traditions ...
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 |