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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... paradigm in the social sciences retains this perspective today. It was also how positivistically inclined philosophers of science from Hans Reichenbach (1938) to Larry Laudan (1977) divided the intellectual labor between the ...
... 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 1970s , espe- cially through Latour and ...
... paradigm in the social sciences retains this perspective today . It was also how positivistically inclined philosophers of science from Hans Reichenbach ( 1938 ) to Larry Laudan ( 1977 ) divided the intellectual labor between the ...
... paradigm are licensed to discuss the overall 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 ...
... paradigms " in that sense ) used to motivate the ideology's arguments . For example , the prima facie plausibility of the Marxist ideological framework trades on our tendency to imagine " labor " in terms of the nineteenth - century ...
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 |