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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... positivists ' desire for assimilation , which inhibited them from engaging in research likely to lead to a critique of their hosts ' socio - epistemic authority . It was in this spirit that the logical positivists , following the ...
... positivists ' desire for assimilation , which inhibited them from engaging in research likely to lead to a critique of their hosts ' socio - epistemic authority . It was in this spirit that the logical positivists , following the ...
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Steve Fuller. Although Peter Galison paints a pretty picture of the positivists ' motives , it is a trompe l'oeil . Notice what he takes to be the opposite of unity , namely , independence and autonomy . However , the positivists , being ...
Steve Fuller. Although Peter Galison paints a pretty picture of the positivists ' motives , it is a trompe l'oeil . Notice what he takes to be the opposite of unity , namely , independence and autonomy . However , the positivists , being ...
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... positivism . Even when the positivists spoke of " physicalism , " they did not mean the reduction of appearances to their physical con- stituents , such as the motions of atoms . ( That way lay Arthur Eddington's notorious paradox of ...
... positivism . Even when the positivists spoke of " physicalism , " they did not mean the reduction of appearances to their physical con- stituents , such as the motions of atoms . ( That way lay Arthur Eddington's notorious paradox of ...
Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Contrasting Visions | 85 |
Copyright | |
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