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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... once science's " internal dynamic " is revealed as nothing but a strategically focused version of the contingencies that affect the rest of social life ? Indeed , what if it turns out that the border between science and politics ...
... once science's " internal dynamic " is revealed as nothing but a strategically focused version of the contingencies that affect the rest of social life ? Indeed , what if it turns out that the border between science and politics ...
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... once knowledge previously pursued for purely instrumental reasons comes to be pursued as an end in itself . It draws on a mode of genetic explanation common in the Wilhelmine period , whereby an entity that begins with heterogeneous ...
... once knowledge previously pursued for purely instrumental reasons comes to be pursued as an end in itself . It draws on a mode of genetic explanation common in the Wilhelmine period , whereby an entity that begins with heterogeneous ...
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... once the secular rulers of Europe no longer required the approval of the Roman Catholic Church . Many rival Christian churches emerged in this religious free zone , each directly appealing to people's interests , forgoing abstract ...
... once the secular rulers of Europe no longer required the approval of the Roman Catholic Church . Many rival Christian churches emerged in this religious free zone , each directly appealing to people's interests , forgoing abstract ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 11 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Copyright | |
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