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. *Should science and technology be treated as separate entities?*What impact has globalization had on science and technology? *Can science be clearly distinguished from other forms of knowledge? *Does the politicization of science really matter? *Is there a role for the social regulation of scientific inquiry? *Should we be worried about research fraud? 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 63
While Heidegger wondered where is the place of authentic being in an epistemic
regime that enables anything to be studied by any means , Schlick wondered at
what point does philosophy's relationship to science become so attenuated as to
...
While Heidegger wondered where is the place of authentic being in an epistemic
regime that enables anything to be studied by any means , Schlick wondered at
what point does philosophy's relationship to science become so attenuated as to
...
Page 120
Has scientific progress become evolutionarily maladaptive ? If Popper and his
distinguished precursors are correct about the mark of our humanity , then seen
from a Darwinian standpoint , human beings are inveterate selection dodgers .
Has scientific progress become evolutionarily maladaptive ? If Popper and his
distinguished precursors are correct about the mark of our humanity , then seen
from a Darwinian standpoint , human beings are inveterate selection dodgers .
Page 198
Even without becoming a convert to science fiction or postmodernism , one can
appreciate the roots of this mentality in the British ... Waddington is interesting for
various reasons that will become increasingly clear in the rest of this chapter .
Even without becoming a convert to science fiction or postmodernism , one can
appreciate the roots of this mentality in the British ... Waddington is interesting for
various reasons that will become increasingly clear in the rest of this chapter .
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Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 11 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies |
| Author | Steve Fuller |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Wiley, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0745636934, 9780745636931 |
| Length | 240 pages |
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