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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... concepts like “practice” and “model” that routinely arise in the field's empirical inquiries (e.g., Sismondo 2004, but already criticized in Turner 1994). From the STS side, it looks as if the bulk of philosophers who remain resolutely ...
... concepts, that is only because they see in STS research “applications” or “extensions” of ideas that are already present in Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, and others. From an STS standpoint, the ...
... concept of “paradigms.” While the Fleck–Kuhn connection is somewhat tenuous, a clear legacy of the French tradition has been the “anthropologization” of the sociology of science, starting in the 1970s, especially through Latour and ...
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Contents
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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 |