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 49
... closed and open societies with realist and antirealist - or " essentialist ” and “ nominalist , ” in Popper's terms – atti- tudes toward both the collective and the individual . The scholastic reduction of the difference between closed ...
... closed and open societies with realist and antirealist - or " essentialist ” and “ nominalist , ” in Popper's terms – atti- tudes toward both the collective and the individual . The scholastic reduction of the difference between closed ...
Page 50
... closed society's narrative is about the irreconcil- ability of liberalism and socialism , while the open society's concerns their reconcilability . In genealogical terms , the former is about escap- ing Rome at its most papal ...
... closed society's narrative is about the irreconcil- ability of liberalism and socialism , while the open society's concerns their reconcilability . In genealogical terms , the former is about escap- ing Rome at its most papal ...
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... closed from an open con- ception of science . Specifically , an instantiationist metaphysics lends itself to a closed social science , in the sense that the social world – much like the physical world in Newtonian mechanics - is ...
... closed from an open con- ception of science . Specifically , an instantiationist metaphysics lends itself to a closed social science , in the sense that the social world – much like the physical world in Newtonian mechanics - is ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Contrasting Visions | 85 |
Copyright | |
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