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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... sociologists to come round to it. Until the 1970s, the “sociology of science” was based on a fairly uncritical ... sociologist would simply not be doing her job, which is to study science as a concrete human activity. What we find is ...
... sociologists whose limited sense of context fails to reach beyond their own “intertextuality.” Left to its own devices, STS tries to create as much distance as possible from its disputatious philosophical past. Thus, the field tends to ...
... sociologists today call a “generational cohort” (Mannheim 1952). The character of this investigation tended to be more humanistic than naturalistic, modeled on hermeneutics rather than ethnography. Mannheim explicitly distanced his own ...
... sociologists had been operating with an equivocal sense of “consequences”: scientists were being held accountable only 14 • The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies 2. Science as a Special Problem for the Sociology of Knowledge.
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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 |