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 46
... epistemic paternalism , the transfer of epistemic responsibility from oneself to someone authorized to circumscribe permissible belief on one's behalf , notably a priestly elite . This is what Kant derided as the childlike state of ...
... epistemic paternalism , the transfer of epistemic responsibility from oneself to someone authorized to circumscribe permissible belief on one's behalf , notably a priestly elite . This is what Kant derided as the childlike state of ...
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... epistemic access associated with jargon and related mystifications , disunificationists have aimed to protect spaces for different epistemic communities to flourish autonomously . And third , whereas unifica- tionists have sought to ...
... epistemic access associated with jargon and related mystifications , disunificationists have aimed to protect spaces for different epistemic communities to flourish autonomously . And third , whereas unifica- tionists have sought to ...
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... epistemic regime that enables anything to be studied by any means , Schlick wondered at what point does philosophy's rela- tionship to science become so attenuated as to be arbitrary and hence merely ideological " nonsense . " It may ...
... epistemic regime that enables anything to be studied by any means , Schlick wondered at what point does philosophy's rela- tionship to science become so attenuated as to be arbitrary and hence merely ideological " nonsense . " It may ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 31 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 71 |
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