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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... Theory 4 Observation , Theory , Observation Theory 4 ( b ) The antipositivist image of the history of science Instrument , Instrument2 Instrument , Theory , Theory2 Experiment , Experiment2 Experiment , Experiment Time → ( c ) The ...
... Theory 4 Observation , Theory , Observation Theory 4 ( b ) The antipositivist image of the history of science Instrument , Instrument2 Instrument , Theory , Theory2 Experiment , Experiment2 Experiment , Experiment Time → ( c ) The ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 11 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Copyright | |
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