Recommended Resources: • Feyerabend, Paul. 1975. Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge. London: Verso. • Fleck, Ludwig. 1979. The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact edited by T.J. Trenn and R.K. Merton, foreword by Thomas Kuhn Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (English translation). • Fuller, Steve. 2000. Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. • Hanson, Norwood Russell. 1959. Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. • Koyré, Alexandre. 1957. From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. • Lakatos, Imre. “Science and Pseudoscience.”Links to an external site. Broadcast on 6/30/1973 for an Open University course on “Problems of Philosophy.” • Popper, Karl. 1934/1992. "A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems." In The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 27-48. London & New York: Routledge. • Wittgenstein, Ludwig. 1958. Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell. • Zammito, John H. 2004. "Doing Kuhn One Better: The (Failed) Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science." In A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour, 90-122. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
✦ Examining philosophical and historical perspectives on the nature of science.
Question Forum 1 ► Team 1 Members: Please post your questions on the reading to the Question 1 Forum by 6 p.m. on Sunday (9/10). ► Team 1 Members: Please post your key words or phrases to the Key Words and Phrases page by 6 p.m. on Sunday (9/10). ► Respondents: Please post your response to selected questions to the Question 1 Forum by 6 p.m. on Tuesday (9/12). ► Class Members: Please provide your assessment of the presentationDownload assessment of the presentation at the end of class.
Recommended Resources: • Barnes, Barry, and David Bloor. 1982. "Relativism, Rationalism and the Sociology of Knowledge.Download "Relativism, Rationalism and the Sociology of Knowledge." In Rationality and Relativism, edited by M. Hollis and S. Lukes, 21-47. Oxford: Blackwell. • Bloor, David. 1981. "The Strengths of the Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11: 199-213. • Bloor, David. 1991. Knowledge and Social Imagery.Download Knowledge and Social Imagery. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press. Chapter 1, Conclusion, Afterword. • Collins, Harry M. 1983. "An Empirical Relativist Programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge." In Science Observed: Perspectives on the Social Study of Science, edited by K. Knorr-Cetina and M. Mulkay, 83-113. London: Sage. • Collins, Harry M. 1992. Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice. Chicago & London: Chicago University Press, chs. 2-4. • Laudan, Larry. 1981. "The Pseudo-Science of Science?" Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11: 173-98.
✦ Addressing the move from positing social norms governing scientific action to conducting field studies of scientific practice.
Recommended Resources: • Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. 1983. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books. Introduction, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Postscript. • Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. 1985. "The Industrial Revolution in the Home." In The Social Shaping of Technology (2nd ed), edited by Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, 181-201. Milton Keyes, UK: Open University Press. • Feenberg, Andrew. 2002. Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. • Heidegger, Martin. 1977. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. New York: Harper & Row. • Hughes, Thomas P. 1994. "Technological Momentum." In Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, edited by M. R. Smith and L. Marx, 101-113. Cambridge & London: MIT Press. • Maines, Rachel. 2001. "Socially Camouflaged Technologies: the Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator [with historical documents]." In American Technology, edited by C. W. Pursell, 116-130. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. • Marx, Leo. 1997. "Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept." Social Research 64, no. 3: 965-988. • Mitcham, Carl. Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. • Oldenziel, Ruth. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999. • Pitt, Joseph. Thinking about Technology. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000. • Winner, Langdon. Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.
✦ Understanding the theoretical and methodological aspects of social constructivism.
Recommended Resources: • Gusterson, Hugh. 1996. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. • Knorr-Cetina, Karin. 1983. "The Ethnographic Study of Scientific Work: Towards a Constructivist Sociology of Science." In Science Observed, edited by K. Knorr-Cetina and M. Mulkay, 115-140. London: Sage. • Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar. 1986. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Price, Derek J. De Solla. 1986. Little Science, Big Science ... and Beyond. 2 ed. New York: Columbia University Press.
Recommended Resources • Barron, Colin, editor. 2003. "A strong distinction between humans and non-humans is no longer required for research purposes: a debate between Bruno Latour and Steve Fuller." History of the Human Sciences 16, no. 2: 77-99. • Callon, Michel. 1991. "Techno-economic networks and irreversibility." In A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination edited by John Law, 132-165. London: Routledge. • Collins, Harry M., and Steven Yearley. 1992. "Epistemological Chicken." In Science as Practice and Culture, edited by Andrew Pickering, 301-326. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. • Latour, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. • Latour, Bruno. 1987. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. • Law, John and John Hassard, editors. 1999. Actor Network Theory and After Oxford and Keele: Blackwell and the Sociological Review. • Sismondo, Sergio. 2004. "Actor-Network Theory." In An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies by Sergio Sismundo, 65-74. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
✦ Examining the methodological edicts and outcomes of actor-network theory.
• Bauer, Henry H. 1996. “The Anti-Science Phenomenon in Science & Technology Studies.” Download “The Anti-Science Phenomenon in Science & Technology Studies.” Social Studies of Science 9, no.1, 34-49. • Fish, Stanley. 1996. "Professor Sokal's Bad Joke. " New York Times May 21, 1996. •Gross, Paul R., Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis. 1997. The Flight from Science and Reason. New York: New York Academy of Science. • Koertge, Noretta. 2000. A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science. Oxford University Press. • Nelkin, Dorothy. 1996. "The Science Wars: Responses to a Marriage Failed" Social Text 46/47, Vol. 14, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 93–100., p. 95. • Ravetz, Jerome R. 1979. Scientific knowledge and its social problems. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. • Sokal, Alan. 1996. "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" Social Text 46/47, Vol. 14, Nos. 1 & 2, pp 217–252. • Sokal, Alan. 1996. "A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies," Lingua Franca, May/June, pp 62–64. • Sokal, Alan; Jean Bricmont. 1998. Fashionable Nonsense. New York: Picador.
✦ Analyzing the interpretations and consequences of criticisms of science from STS practitioners.
Recommended Resources • Collins, Harry and Robert Evans. 2002. "The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience." Social Studies of Science 32, no. 2 (2002): 235-296. • Hilgartner, Stephen. 2000. Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama. Stanford, CA: Standford University Press. • Jasanoff, Sheila. 2003. "Breaking the Waves in Science Studies: Comment on H.M. Collins and Robert Evans, 'The Third Wave of Science Studies'." Social Studies of Science 33, no. 3: 389-400. • Miller, Clarke. 2008. "The Politics of Climate Change." In Controversies in Science and Technology, edited by D. Kleinman, A. J. Kinchy and J. Handelsman, 289-304. Madison, WI.: University of Wisconsin Press. • Wynne, Brian. 2013. "Seasick on the Third Wave? Subverting the Hegemony of Propositionalism." Social Studies of Science 33, no. 3: 401-417.
Recommended Resources: • Cockburn, Cynthia. 1999. "The material of male power." In The Social Shaping of Technology. 2nd ed., edited by Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, 125-146. Open University Press, 1999. • Haraway, Donna. 1991. "Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 149-181. New York: Routledge, 1991. • Longino, Helen E. 1990. Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Pr., 1990. • Rheinberger, Hans-Jorg. 19997. Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
✦ Exploring the reciprocal influence of historical and feminist conceptions of objectivity.
Recommended Resources: • Kline, Ron and Trevor Pinch. 1996. "Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States." Technology and Culture 37: 763-795. • Thomas, Robert J. 1999. "What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise." In The Social Shaping of Technology. 2nd ed., edited by Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, 199-221. Open University Press.
• Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. 1999. Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1-133. • Lessig, Lawrence. 2002. "Four Puzzles from Cyberspace" and "What Things Regulate." In Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 9-23, 85-99. • O'Malley, Pat. 1996. "Risk and Responsibility."Download "Risk and Responsibility." In Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism and the Rationalities of Government, edited by A. Barry, T. Osborne and N. Rose, 189-207. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. • Porter, Theodore M. 1995. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Scott, James. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chapter 1.Download Chapter 1.
✦ Examining the global impact of science and technology.
Recommended Resources • Adas, Michael. 1989. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. • Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, selections. • Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. • Headrick, Daniel R. 1891. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century . New York: Oxford University Press. • Hecht, Gabrielle. 2002. "Rupture Talk in the Nuclear Age: Conjugating Colonial Power in Africa." Social Studies of Science 32, no. 5/6: 691-727. • Jasanoff, Sheila. 2005. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, selections. • Mitchell, Timothy. 1988. Colonising Egypt. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press. • Moon, Suzanne. 2005. "The Emergence of Technological Development and the Question of Native Identity in the Netherlands East Indies." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 36, no. 2: 191-206. • Oosterhout, Dianne van. 2008. "From Colonial to Postcolonial Irrigation Technology: Technological Romanticism and the Revival of Colonial Water Tanks in Java, Indonesia." Technology and Culture 49: 701-726.
✦ Addressing the teams questions.
30 November Roundtable Discussions
❧ Concept Map assignment due. ❧ Each group will discuss their concept map and final set of claims for 30 to 35 minutes. ❦ Post one to three questions you would like to answer to the Exam 2 Question Bank pageno later than noon Sunday, December 3.
✦ Examining our understanding of STS in relation to post-truth.
Recommended Resources: • Krohn, Wolfgang. 2008. “Learning from Case Studies.”Download “Learning from Case Studies.” In Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research, Edited by Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Holger Hoffmann-Riem, Susette Biber-Klemm, Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy, Dominique Joye, Christian Pohl, Urs Wiesmann, Elisabeth Zemp, 369-383. Springer Science & Business Media. • Mol. Annemarie. 2008. “Two Logics.”Download “Two Logics.” In The Logic of Care, 1-15. London: Routledge, 2008.
✦ Addressing current emphases in STS on bodies and biological reproduction, ontology, and application of actor-network theory.