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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It is epitomized in Robert Merton's ( 1977 ) famous four principles : universalism ,
disinterestedness , communism , organized skepticism . They are easily
recognized as the sociological correlates of key aspects of philosophical
accounts of ...
It is epitomized in Robert Merton's ( 1977 ) famous four principles : universalism ,
disinterestedness , communism , organized skepticism . They are easily
recognized as the sociological correlates of key aspects of philosophical
accounts of ...
Page 78
The logician Quine liked to speak of a “ principle of charity ” that underwrites our
understanding of other times and places , but the charity extended to the
positivists by today's disunifiers is a backhanded compliment that deserves its
own name ...
The logician Quine liked to speak of a “ principle of charity ” that underwrites our
understanding of other times and places , but the charity extended to the
positivists by today's disunifiers is a backhanded compliment that deserves its
own name ...
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If anything , the biological turn has intensified that role so as to be profoundly
threatening to the Popperian principle that our ideas should die in our stead . Be
it mere nostalgia or a going concern , this principle has traditionally enabled a
clear ...
If anything , the biological turn has intensified that role so as to be profoundly
threatening to the Popperian principle that our ideas should die in our stead . Be
it mere nostalgia or a going concern , this principle has traditionally enabled a
clear ...
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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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| 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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