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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
... Today Conclusion: Toward a Rhetorical Reclamation of Science Bibliography Index 88 93 98 102 108 115 115 122 127 133 141 145 149 152 157 157 160 164 171 174 181 189 Acknowledgments It is difficult to write a book about the viii • Contents.
... today's world, yet our attachment to science is anything but rational. This paradox captures the excitement that currently surrounds those who study the social and cultural foundations of science and technology, known as science and ...
... 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 sociology of ...
... today. It was also how positivistically inclined philosophers of science from Hans Reichenbach (1938) to Larry Laudan (1977) divided the intellectual labor between the epistemology and the sociology of knowledge. In each case, it was ...
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Contents
1 | |
11 | |
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 |