Search Results for science and technology studies

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Advocates of literary Darwinism, cognitive cultural studies, neuroaesthetics, digital humanities, and other such hybrid fields now seek explicitly to make the aims and methods of one or another humanities discipline approximate more closely the aims and methods of science...

...Jan Golinski Abstract This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” endorses Nicholas Gaskill's analysis of Rorty's limited legacy in the field of science and technology studies. It shows how, rather than engaging with scientific practice in a substantial...

..., and to subsequent pragmatist‐constructivist antirepresentationalism in contemporary science and technology studies (STS) and “4E” (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) cognitive theory. A final section on Nicholas Gaskill's contribution to the symposium questions his sense of Rorty's rhetorical recklessness...

...John Law; Geir Afdal; Kristin Asdal; Wen-yuan Lin; Ingunn Moser; Vicky Singleton In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies,” the authors, all of whom work in the field of science, technology, and society, begin from the assumption that, as Bruno Latour has put it, “we...

...Casper Bruun Jensen Early in his career, Bruno Latour’s limited readership consisted mainly of the research community in science and technology studies (STS) that he helped to inaugurate. Today the situation could hardly be more different. Latour is now subject to the “translations”—the processes...

... and sciences, the essay outlines new disciplines: technohumanities , which would study humans as a part of the technosphere; pathohumanities , which would investigate the self-destructive mechanisms of civilization; and scriptorics , which would focus on Homo scriptor , who has survived “the death...

...; and The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change, which received the ASA prize for best book and the Ludwig Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Caryl Emerson is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Princeton...

... . “ The Whole World Is Becoming Science Studies: Fadhila Mazandarani Talks with Bruno Latour .” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society , no. 4 ( 2018 ): 284 – 302 . Latour Bruno , and Weibel Peter , eds. Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2005...

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... would like to extend the Many of the ideas discussed here were developed in the 2.  In science and technology studies, see, for example, author’s course in cyborg studies at Exeter University, and John Law, “Assembling the World by Survey: Perfor- he wishes to thank the students for lively...

... and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture. Kristin Asdal is professor of science, technology, and culture at the University of Oslo. She is coeditor (with Ingunn Moser) of Experiments in Context and Contexting and Politikkens natur — Naturens politikk. David Blackbourn...

... is professor of science and technology studies atBar- studies technology and ofscience professor...

... Institute and a professor at Bar Ilan University's Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Casper Bruun Jensen , currently living in Phnom Penh, is the author of Ontologies for Developing Things and the coauthor (with Britt Ross Winthereik) of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid...

... extension of this victory into social studies, political science departments in particular have been roiled by the attempt to transform the study of politics from a variety of soft qualitative work into an exact science compara- ble to the study of markets...

... Richard Rorty Paul Feyerabend Thomas Kuhn atheism Gaia It is a point of importance for our discussion of Rorty's relationship to the field of science and technology studies that, as Jan Golinski observes here, Rorty was neither a philosopher of science nor a historian of the sciences. Still, like...

... 2014 Notes on Contributors Babette Babich, professor of philosophy at Fordham University and founding editor of New Nietzsche Studies, is the author of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life; Words...

... of Technology, and the chief dramaturge at the Innsbruck Kellertheater. His books include Assembling Reminders: Studies in the Genesis of Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy ; Theater and Knowledge: Towards a Dramatic Epistemology and an Epistemology of Drama ; The Use and Abuse of Metaphor...

... Philosophical Soci- ety, the College Art Association, the International Congress for Medieval Studies, and the Medieval Association of America. Oren Harman chairs the graduate program in science, technology, and society at Bar- Ilan University and is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Institute...

... at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Ontologies for Developing Things , coauthor of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid , and coeditor of Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, and Anthropology . Myroslav Laiuk 's three books of poetry and three novels have appeared in fifteen...

... lecturer at the Australian Center for the Study of Jewish Civilization, Monash University. He has recently completed a study of Levinas and Heidegger. Fang Lizhi, former vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China, was named...