New Frontiers in Science and Technology StudiesPolity Press, 2007 M10 1 - 240 pages Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years.
These questions are explored by examining an array of historical, philosophical and contemporary sources. Attention is paid, for example, to the Bruno Latour's The Politics of Nature as a model for science policy, as well as the global controversy surrounding Bjorn Lomborg's The Sceptical Environmentalist, which led to the dismantling and re-establishment of the Danish national research ethics board. New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies will appeal strongly to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses concerned with the social dimensions of science and technology, and anyone who cares about the future of science. |
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Page 73
... contrast between scientific and philosophical forms of reductionism is a version of a distinction that contemporary philosophers of science officially find more significant : realism vs constructivism . Generally speaking , scientific ...
... contrast between scientific and philosophical forms of reductionism is a version of a distinction that contemporary philosophers of science officially find more significant : realism vs constructivism . Generally speaking , scientific ...
Page 87
... contrast can be found even in modern evolutionary biology . Notwithstanding his avowed atheism , Richard Dawkins's ( 1976 ) notorious " gene's eye - view of the world " is instantiationist because he locates the motor of biological ...
... contrast can be found even in modern evolutionary biology . Notwithstanding his avowed atheism , Richard Dawkins's ( 1976 ) notorious " gene's eye - view of the world " is instantiationist because he locates the motor of biological ...
Page 94
... contrast , an emergentist metaphysics lends itself to an open social science , because the social world is portrayed as continu- ally generating novel consequences from the interaction of known tendencies , including those associated ...
... contrast , an emergentist metaphysics lends itself to an open social science , because the social world is portrayed as continu- ally generating novel consequences from the interaction of known tendencies , including those associated ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 31 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 71 |
Copyright | |
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