ISBN:
9789048190515
,
1282995596
,
9781282995598
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (X, 492p, digital)
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 274
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Science in the context of application
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. Li, Ruoxu Hui zu dian cang quan shu ; 202 : Yi wen lei: Shi fu shi cun
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Science History
;
Science Philosophy
;
Sociology
;
Philosophy
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Science History
;
Science Philosophy
;
Sociology
;
Science
;
Philosophy
;
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
;
Methodologie
;
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
;
Methodologie
Abstract:
We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific research themselves are generated by science and technology. Simultaneously, problems like global warming, the toxicology of nanoparticles, or the use of renewable energies are constituted by many factors that interact with great complexity. Science in the context of application is challenged to gain new understanding and control of such complexity - it cannot seek shelter in the ivory tower or simply pursue its internal quest for understanding and gradual improvement of grand theories. Science in the Context of Application will identify, explore and assess these changes. Part I considers the 'Changing Conditions of Scientific Research' and part II 'Science, Values, and Society'. Examples are drawn from pharmaceutical research, the information sciences, simulation modelling, nanotechnology, cancer research, the effects of commercialization, and many other fields. The book assembles papers from well-known European and American Science Studies scholars like Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Janet Kourany, Michael Mahoney, Margaret Morrison, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Arie Rip, Dan Sarewitz, Peter Weingart, and others. The individual chapters are written to address anyone who is concerned about the role of contemporary science in society, including scientists, philosophers, and policy makers.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; Science in the Context of Application: Methodological Change, Conceptual Transformation, Cultural Reorientation; Research Going Practical: A Break with the Epistemic Past?; Changing Conditions of Scientific Research; Science, Values, and Society; Exploring Science in the Context of Application; References; Part I Changing Conditions of Scientific Research: Science and Technology; Knowledge, Politics, and Commerce: Science Under the Pressure of Practice; Between the Pure and Applied: The Search for the Elusive Middle Ground
Description / Table of Contents:
Science in the Context of Industrial Application: The Case of the Philips Natuurkundig LaboratoriumMulti-Level Complexities in Technological Development: Competing Strategies for Drug Discovery; Theory and Therapy: On the Conceptual Structure of Models in Medical Research; Materials as Machines; Part II Changing Conditions of Scientific Research: The Role of Instruments; Holism and Entrenchment in Climate Model Validation; Computational Science and Its Effects; Expertise in Methods, Methods of Expertise; Recent Orientations and Reorientations in the Life Sciences
Description / Table of Contents:
Transforming Objects into Data: How Minute Technicalities of Recording ``Species Location'' Entrench a Basic Challenge for BiodiversityPart III Changing Conditions of Scientific Research: Institutional Changes in Applied Research; Protected Spaces of Science: Their Emergence and Further Evolution in a Changing World; The Cognitive, Instrumental and Institutional Origins of Nanoscale Research: The Place of Biology; Part IV Science, Values and Society: Economic, Political and Public Relations of Research
Description / Table of Contents:
Bringing the Marketplace into Science: On the Neoliberal Defense of the Commercialization of Scientific ResearchMedical Market Failures and Their Remedy; Thoughts on Politicization of Science Through Commercialization; Political Effectiveness in Science and Technology; The Political Economy of Technoscience; Science, the Public and the Media -- Views from Everywhere; Part V Science, Values and Society: Freedom of Research and Social Accountability; Conditions of Science: The Three-Way Tension of Freedom, Accountability and Utility; Integrating the Ethical into Scientific Rationality
Description / Table of Contents:
Part VI Science, Values and Society: Historical TransformationsWhat Makes Computer Science a Science?; Black-Boxing Organisms, Exploiting the Unpredictable: Control Paradigms in Human--Machine Translations; An Epoch-Making Change in the Development of Science? A Critique of the ``Epochal-Break-Thesis''; Everything New Is Old Again: What Place Should Applied Science Have in the History of Science?; Science in the Context of Technology; Index;
Note:
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DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-9051-5
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