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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However , in the mid - 18th century , the epistemic gap between the divine and
the human mind began to close , as providentialism became exclusively path -
dependent . In other words , the prospect that the divine plan's full realization
might ...
However , in the mid - 18th century , the epistemic gap between the divine and
the human mind began to close , as providentialism became exclusively path -
dependent . In other words , the prospect that the divine plan's full realization
might ...
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This is another way of saying that unificationists tend to collapse ontology into
epistemology . ... First , whereas unificationists have aspired to one ultimate court
of epistemic appeal – say , by reducing all knowledge claims to statements about
...
This is another way of saying that unificationists tend to collapse ontology into
epistemology . ... First , whereas unificationists have aspired to one ultimate court
of epistemic appeal – say , by reducing all knowledge claims to statements about
...
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to either Kant or Einstein , if Einstein's counterintuitive physical theories are
assimilated to Kant's down - to - earth Euclidean epistemology ? In terms of
Weimar politics , neo - Kantianism was subject to a deadly pincer attack from
philosophical ...
to either Kant or Einstein , if Einstein's counterintuitive physical theories are
assimilated to Kant's down - to - earth Euclidean epistemology ? In terms of
Weimar politics , neo - Kantianism was subject to a deadly pincer attack from
philosophical ...
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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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