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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... theory rather than philosophy . " Theory " consists of the several possible frameworks for doing STS research , whereas " philosophy " constitutes a more basic inquiry that asks embarrassing questions about the relative merits of ...
... theories of ratio- nality obscure the empirical character of scientific practice ; on the other , continental ... theory , " is best seen as a sensitizing device - an " instrument of surveillance , " as Foucault might say that ...
... theories . But might not the same be said of a religion or a political party ? This question seems not to have been asked in the past because sociologists had been operating with an equivocal sense of " consequences " : scientists were ...
... theory on behalf of which the examples have been mobilized . Thus , Kuhn never tells us the social processes by which members of an actual scientific community came to perceive the accumulation of anomalies in their paradigm as ...
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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 |