The Philosophy of Science and Technology StudiesRoutledge, 2013 M10 18 - 208 pages As the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has become more established, it has increasingly hidden its philosophical roots. While the trend is typical of disciplines striving for maturity, Steve Fuller, a leading figure in the field, argues that STS has much to lose if it abandons philosophy. In his characteristically provocative style, he offers the first sustained treatment of the philosophical foundations of STS and suggests fruitful avenues for further research. With stimulating discussions of the Science Wars, the Intelligent Design Theory controversy, and theorists such as Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies is required reading for students and scholars in STS and the philosophy of science. |
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Steve Fuller. epistemology aims to recover and extend the ground common to the Enlight- enment , positivism , and postmodernism - three movements that are typically seen as centrifugally related to one another . In short , I am a social ...
Steve Fuller. spatiotemporal arrangement of the people concerned. Thus, a Durkheimian might show how religious rituals enable the faithful to escape the limitations of their material conditions and stand up to potential oppressors, while ...
Steve Fuller. was held together by the integration of different class - based forms of knowl- edge . Each form of knowledge , the realization of an innate capacity , was supposed to provide access to a unified vision of reality in a ...
Steve Fuller. prevent the outbreak of the Science Wars ( Gross and Levitt 1994 , Ross 1996 , Koertge 1998 , Fuller 2000b , 354-65 ) . To be sure , the sociology of knowledge has been a lightning rod for con- troversy ever since the field ...
Steve Fuller. constituted . In casting doubt upon the " idea , " I still think within the same categorical pattern as the one in which it has its being . But when I do not even raise the question ( or at least when I do not make this ...
Contents
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A Sociology of Science that | 28 |
Philosophy In Of and Beyond the Scientific Field Site | 45 |
STS by Another Name? | 79 |
Beyond Puritans and Gnostics | 115 |
Cultivating a Life in STS | 157 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Index | 189 |