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 116
... theories must have been expressed in a language that does not make reference to the theorist's own origins . The appeal to a strong belief / theory distinction as a mark of human- ity has a venerable lineage that reaches back from ...
... theories must have been expressed in a language that does not make reference to the theorist's own origins . The appeal to a strong belief / theory distinction as a mark of human- ity has a venerable lineage that reaches back from ...
Page 118
... theory than for the actual content of the successor theory . Indeed , a good candidate for an " essence " to humanity is the phenomenon of the second chance : to wit , someone who presented a theory once deemed false can later present ...
... theory than for the actual content of the successor theory . Indeed , a good candidate for an " essence " to humanity is the phenomenon of the second chance : to wit , someone who presented a theory once deemed false can later present ...
Page 203
... theories are , on closer inspection , alternative projections - or " models " - of the same theory , both of which may be equally adequate to the phenomena but articulated from different perspectives or designed for different purposes ...
... theories are , on closer inspection , alternative projections - or " models " - of the same theory , both of which may be equally adequate to the phenomena but articulated from different perspectives or designed for different purposes ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 31 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 71 |
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