Umfang:
VII, 222 S.
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Ill.
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23 cm
ISBN:
0822961636
,
9780822961635
Inhalt:
"Advancements in computing, instrumentation, robotics, digital imaging, and simulation modeling are changing science into a technology-driven institution. The pragmatic interests of government, industry, and society increasingly exert their influence over science, raising questions of values and objectivity. These and other profound changes in the world of science have led many to speculate that we are in the midst of an epochal break in scientific history. This edited volume presents an in-depth examination of these issues from philosophical, historical, social, and cultural perspectives. It presents arguments both for and against the epochal break thesis in light of historical antecedents, offering an important occasion for philosophical analysis of the epistemic, institutional and moral questions affecting current and future scientific pursuits. "--P. 4 of cover
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Science after the end of science? An introduction to the "epochal break thesis"
,
The age of technoscience
,
We are not witnesses to a new scientific revolution
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"Knowledge is power," or how to capture the relationship between science and technoscience
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Climbing the hill: seeing (and not seeing) epochal breaks from multiple vantage points
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Breaking up with the epochal break: the case of engineering sciences
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Science and its recent history: from an epochal break to novel, nonlocal patterns
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Knowledge-making in transition: on the changing contexts of science and technology
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Alliances between styles: a new model for the interaction between science and technology
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Experimenting with the concept of experiment: probing the epochal break
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Intensification, not transformation: digital media's effects on scientific practice
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Technologies of viewing: aspects of imaging in natural sciences
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Technoscience as popular culture: on pleasure, consumer technologies, and the economy of attention
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The good old days: medical research then and now
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Toward a new culture of prediction: computational modeling in the era of desktop computing
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Epilogue: the sticking points of the epochal break thesis
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Nordmann, Alfred Science Transformed? Pittsburgh PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011 ISBN 9780822977506
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Naturwissenschaft allgemein
,
Philosophie
Schlagwort(e):
Wissenschaft
;
Technik
;
Forschung und Entwicklung
;
Wissenschaftsfreiheit
;
Wissenschaftsethik
Mehr zum Autor:
Nordmann, Alfred 1956-
Mehr zum Autor:
Schiemann, Gregor 1954-
