The Philosophy of Science and Technology StudiesRoutledge, 2013 M10 18 - 208 pages As the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has become more established, it has increasingly hidden its philosophical roots. While the trend is typical of disciplines striving for maturity, Steve Fuller, a leading figure in the field, argues that STS has much to lose if it abandons philosophy. In his characteristically provocative style, he offers the first sustained treatment of the philosophical foundations of STS and suggests fruitful avenues for further research. With stimulating discussions of the Science Wars, the Intelligent Design Theory controversy, and theorists such as Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies is required reading for students and scholars in STS and the philosophy of science. |
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... century. 3. Knowledge, Theory of--History--20th century. 4. Social sciences-Philosophy--History--20th century. I. Title. Q174.8.F85 2005 501--dc22 2005025200 and the Routledge Web site at http://www.routledge-ny.com Taylor & Francis ...
... century, STS has come into its own as an academic field. It now sports its own professional societies, journals, handbooks, degree programs—not to mention funding streams and cross-disciplinary gurus like Latour and Donna Haraway. But ...
... century-old culture wars against postmodernism were upgraded into the Science Wars. STS is primarily represented in English by the journals, Social Studies ofScience, Science, Technology and Human Values, and the reviews journal ...
... century. Plato assumed that society was held together by the integration of different class-based forms 11 II The Sociology of Knowledge: The Philosophical Backdrop to STS 1. Philosophical Foundations and Main Sociological Traditions.
... century, the prospect of class mobility led the philosophes of the Enlightenment to tinker with Plato by suggesting that these different forms of knowledge could be ordered according to the degree of freedom permitted to their adherents ...
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III Philosophy In Of and Beyond the Scientific Field Site | 45 |
STS by Another Name? | 79 |
Beyond Puritans and Gnostics | 115 |
Cultivating a Life in STS | 157 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Index | 189 |