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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... Kuhn's Checkered Legacy to STS 11 14 21 4. The Punch Line : A Sociology of Science that is not a Sociology of Knowledge 28 5. Relativism and the Illusion of Autonomy in Science 30 6. STS's Janus - faced Antirealism : Relativism versus ...
... Kuhn over Karl Mannheim as a source of both normative orienta- tion and sociological imagination . The result , quite unwittingly from Kuhn's own standpoint , has rendered STS a " sociology of science that is not a sociol- ogy of ...
... Kuhn's ( 1970 ) influential concept of " paradigms . " While the Fleck - Kuhn connection is somewhat tenuous , a clear legacy of the French tradition has been the " anthropologization " of the sociology of science , starting in the ...
... Kuhn - still the philosopher of choice in pub- lic understandings of science - ill equips us to address this ... Kuhnian image of normal science , which has in turn disabled it from seeing the reflexive consequences of its own practices ...
... Kuhn - provides an instructive point of reference . In most general terms , the Vienna Circle regarded conceptual frameworks in a generally Kantian fashion . Thus , the " external " question of which framework should be selected was ...
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 |