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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... end of World War II . Notwithstand- ing this lineage , " relativism " is ultimately an imprecise label for what is most philosophically challenging about STS . A better label is “ constructivism " whose associations with positivism and ...
... ends and means , while sociology is needed to explain the friction of bias and error that usually gets in the way . The " rational choice " paradigm in the social sciences retains this perspective today . It was also how ...
... ends of their inquiry only once it has started to fail on its own terms and , hence , enters a " crisis . " This point applies with a vengeance to STS's desire for academic respectability . It has led the field to embrace the Kuhnian ...
... ends - turned - into - means " reversal discussed in section 5 below . Syncretism in historical writing is associated with what rhetoricians call chiasmus , an exchange of properties that serves to blur the difference between the ...
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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 |