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An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies

By: Sergio Sismondo

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An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies

By: Sergio Sismondo

An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex interdisciplinary terrain of science and technology studies. Distinctive in its attention to both the underlying philosophical and sociological aspects of science and technology Explores core topics such as realism and social construction, discourse and rhetoric, objectivity, and the public understanding of science Includes numerous empirical studies and illustrative examples to elucidate the topics discussed Now includes new material on political economies of scientific and technological knowledge, and democratizing technical decisions Other features of the new edition include improved readability, updated references, chapter reorganization, and more material on medicine and technology

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144435888X

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Science without Myth

On Constructions, Reality, and Social Knowledge

By: Sergio Sismondo

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On Constructions, Reality, and Social Knowledge

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This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.

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SUNY Press

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079142734X

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Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art

Designing Nightmares

By: Sergio Fava

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Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art

Designing Nightmares

By: Sergio Fava

At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and policy, the book situates the failures of climate policy in the cultural history of prediction and its interfaces with policy. Fava calls into question the current interfaces between scientific research and climate policy by tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, religion, art, and the apocalyptic. Demonstrating how the current domination of climate policy by models and scenarios is part of the problem, the book examines how artistic practices are a critical location to ask questions differently, rethink environmental futures, and activate social change. The analysis starts with another moment of climatic change in recent western history: the overlap of the Little Ice Age and the "scientific revolution," during which intense climatic, scientific and political change were contemporary with mathematical calculation of the apocalypse. Dealing with the need for complex answers to complex and urgent questions, this is essential reading for those interested in climate action, interdisciplinary research and methodological innovation. The empirical analyses amount to a methodological experiment, across history of science, theology, art theory and history, architecture, future studies, climatology, computer modelling, and agricultural policy. This book is a major contribution to understanding how we are precluding effective climate action, and designing futures that resemble our worst nightmares.

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Routledge

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1136208933

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Science without Myth

On Constructions, Reality, and Social Knowledge

By: Sergio Sismondo

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On Constructions, Reality, and Social Knowledge

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This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.

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An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies

An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies

An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies

An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies

Science without Myth

Science without Myth

Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art

Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art

Science without Myth

Science without Myth

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