New Frontiers in Science and Technology StudiesSteve 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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sense , " realists ” do not normally resort to " common sense ” for their sense of
reality ; rather , they are much closer in spirit to Platonism , Cartesianism , and
other philosophies that presuppose a stratified view of reality . To be sure ,
realists ...
sense , " realists ” do not normally resort to " common sense ” for their sense of
reality ; rather , they are much closer in spirit to Platonism , Cartesianism , and
other philosophies that presuppose a stratified view of reality . To be sure ,
realists ...
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And while you're studying that reality - judiciously , as you will – we'll act again ,
creating other new realities , which you can study ... In other words , the reality -
based community consists of history's losers , the sort of people whose political ...
And while you're studying that reality - judiciously , as you will – we'll act again ,
creating other new realities , which you can study ... In other words , the reality -
based community consists of history's losers , the sort of people whose political ...
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A Long View The metaphysically deepest reason why the misrepresentation of
knowledge claims might not matter is that reality is more coarsely grained than
our ability to represent it . The social constructions generated by our conceptual ...
A Long View The metaphysically deepest reason why the misrepresentation of
knowledge claims might not matter is that reality is more coarsely grained than
our ability to represent it . The social constructions generated by our conceptual ...
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Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Contrasting Visions | 85 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies New Frontiers in Science and Technology, Steve Fuller |
| Author | Steve Fuller |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Wiley, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 0745636934, 9780745636931 |
| Length | 232 pages |
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