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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Page 17
... conception of scientific revolutions appeared radical in the late 1960s because it was conflated with the then - prevalent Marxist idea of revolution as an irreversible break with the past , something closer in spirit to Condorcet's ...
... conception of scientific revolutions appeared radical in the late 1960s because it was conflated with the then - prevalent Marxist idea of revolution as an irreversible break with the past , something closer in spirit to Condorcet's ...
Page 91
... conception , societies can expand indefinitely without changing their fundamental nature , and many societies can share the same fundamental nature , often by one imitating another . Constraints , such as there are , come from the ...
... conception , societies can expand indefinitely without changing their fundamental nature , and many societies can share the same fundamental nature , often by one imitating another . Constraints , such as there are , come from the ...
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... conception of irreversibility because he was partly influenced by the version of neo- classical political economy that was pursued in his Viennese days by Ludwig von Mises and his student Friedrich Hayek ( Hacohen 2000 : ch . 10 ; cf ...
... conception of irreversibility because he was partly influenced by the version of neo- classical political economy that was pursued in his Viennese days by Ludwig von Mises and his student Friedrich Hayek ( Hacohen 2000 : ch . 10 ; cf ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Contrasting Visions | 85 |
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