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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... questions , thereby turning epistemol- ogy into a form of science policy ( Fuller 1988 ) . There is a strong democratic theme to this line of inquiry , based on the idea science cannot legitimately claim to be a universal form of ...
... question of why abstract philosophical distinctions should have defined the terms of the Science Wars in the first place . On Hacking's telling , they amount to little more than sophisticated name - calling . Here lies the blindspot in ...
... question because practitioners of a scientific 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 ...
... question ( or at least when I do not make this ques- tion the burden of my argument ) whether what the idea asserts is true , but consider it merely in terms of the extra - theoretical function it serves , then and only then do I ...
... question of which framework should be selected was treated as " practical , " whereas the " internal " question of what follows from a selected framework was treated as " theoretical . " This led to what we now recognize as an ...
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 |