This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetua
The concept of society sui generis – society as a level of reality which could be studied scientifically – crystallized in the middle of the nineteenth century in Europe, with the work of Durkheim, Ma
Restivo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) presents an anarchist paradigm for analyzing science and its relation to society, ranging across a broad range of issues of scientific theory, practices, val
The problems I address in this book are among the least studied in the soci- ology of science and knowledge. Part I is a critique of the claim that there are parallels between ancient mysticism and mo
The interdisciplinary nature of science and technology studies has attracted philosophers, computer and natural scientists, historians, sociologists, and engineers into the same forum to examine the s
The problems I address in this book are among the least studied in the soci- ology of science and knowledge. Part I is a critique of the claim that there are parallels between ancient mysticism and mo
A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historic
