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 66
... reductionism Contemporary defenses of the disunity of science like Galison's draw their inspiration from the work of the philosopher , Ian Hacking , who came to the disunity thesis as an early Anglophone interpreter of Michel Foucault ...
... reductionism Contemporary defenses of the disunity of science like Galison's draw their inspiration from the work of the philosopher , Ian Hacking , who came to the disunity thesis as an early Anglophone interpreter of Michel Foucault ...
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... reductionism . Here he claims to follow Leibniz , who identified the quest for the unity of science with fathoming the Divine Plan . Hacking rightly observes that Leibniz was by no means idiosyncratic in his orientation , as the idea of ...
... reductionism . Here he claims to follow Leibniz , who identified the quest for the unity of science with fathoming the Divine Plan . Hacking rightly observes that Leibniz was by no means idiosyncratic in his orientation , as the idea of ...
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... reductionism is a version of a distinction that contemporary philosophers of science officially find more significant : realism vs constructivism . Generally speaking , scientific reductionism is a form of realism , and philosophical ...
... reductionism is a version of a distinction that contemporary philosophers of science officially find more significant : realism vs constructivism . Generally speaking , scientific reductionism is a form of realism , and philosophical ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 11 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
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