Science transformed? : debating claims of an epochal break / edited by Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, and Gregor Schiemann.

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"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 obj...

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Other Authors: Nordmann, Alfred, 1956-, Radder, Hans, Schiemann, Gregor
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects.
Science > Philosophy.
Science > Technological innovations.
Local Note:
This resource was acquired with funds from Office of the Provost, Michigan State University, in honor of Professor Marshall Hestenes, who retired from the Department of Libraries, Computing & Technology in 2001.
Physical Description:vii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Science after the end of science? an introduction to the "epochal break thesis" / Alfred Nordmann,Hans Radder and Gregor Schiemann
  • The age of technoscience / Alfred Nordmann
  • We are not witnesses to a new scientific revolution / Gregor Schiemann
  • "knowledge is power", or how to capture the relationship between science and technoscience / Martin Carrier
  • Climbing the hill: seeing (and not seeing) epochal breaks from multiple vantage points / Cyrus C. M. Mody
  • Breaking up with the epochal break: the case of engineering sciences / Mieke Boon and Tarja Knuuttila
  • Science and its recent history: from an epochal break to novel, non-local patterns / Hans Radder
  • Knowledge making in transition: on the changing contexts of science and technology / Andrew Jamison
  • Alliances between styles: a new model for the interaction between science and technology / Chunglin Kwa
  • Experimenting with the context of experiment: probing the epochal break / Astrid Schwarz and Wolfgang Krohn
  • Intensification, not transformation: digital media's effects on scientific practice / Valerie Hansen
  • Technologies of viewing: aspects of imagining in natural sciences / Angela Krewani
  • Technoscience as popular culture: on pleasure, consumer technologies, and the economy of attention / Jutta Weber
  • The good old days: medical research then and now / James Robert Brown
  • Toward a new culture of prediction: computational modeling in the era of desktop computing / Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard
  • Epilogue: the sticking points of the epochal break thesis / Hans Radder.