Political Epistemology The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies /

• Main Author: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; History.; Political theory.; Historiography.; Sociology.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.; Political Theory.; Historiography and Method.; Knowledge - Discourse.

This book is an investigation of the ideological dimensions of the disciplinary discourses on science in line with the scholarly tradition of historical epistemology. It offers a programmatic treatment of the political-epistemological problematic along three entangled lines of inquiry: socio-histori...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Political Epistemology: Positioning Science Studies
• Chapter 2. The Logic of Science and Technology as a Developmental Tendency of Modernity
• Chapter 3. On Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: The Marxist Struggle for Cultural Hegemony and HPS for a 'Free Society'
• Chapter 4. Toward a Socio-Political History of Science: From Structures to Hegemonies
• Chapter 5. Hegemony and Science: Epistemological and Historiographical Perspectives.