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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... positivism and antirealism need to be taken more seriously by those who would criticize STS , a point I develop in relation to the critique of " relativism " that emerges from the Science Wars . 1. Philosophical Foundations and Main ...
... positivist Rudolf Carnap to idealist Robin Collingwood - Mannheim assumed that an ideology's pre- suppositions are logically independent of one another but combine for histor- ically contingent reasons . The sociologist thus unmasks the ...
... positivist to mark their origins in eighteenth- and nineteenth - century thought , respectively ( Fuller 2000b , 289-94 ) . Kuhn's innovation was to recombine these two distinctions into alternating phases of his model of scientific ...
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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 |