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 33
... empirical objects . Nevertheless , it is easy to elide the distinction between what are ordi- narily called " ideas ” and “ things ” because ideas produce expectations about the world that then inform the interpretive and physical con ...
... empirical objects . Nevertheless , it is easy to elide the distinction between what are ordi- narily called " ideas ” and “ things ” because ideas produce expectations about the world that then inform the interpretive and physical con ...
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... empirical and a normative discipline , an ambiguity preserved in the meaning of " social engineering , " which as Max Weber keenly realized , mixed empirical means and normative ends . While Comte envisaged sociol- ogy and positivism as ...
... empirical and a normative discipline , an ambiguity preserved in the meaning of " social engineering , " which as Max Weber keenly realized , mixed empirical means and normative ends . While Comte envisaged sociol- ogy and positivism as ...
Page 196
... empirical sociology " and , on the other , " social policy " or " social work . " This rift remains inscribed in the names of UK academic departments . It amounts to institutionalized intellectual snobbery , occluding the latter pair's ...
... empirical sociology " and , on the other , " social policy " or " social work . " This rift remains inscribed in the names of UK academic departments . It amounts to institutionalized intellectual snobbery , occluding the latter pair's ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 31 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 71 |
Copyright | |
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