Science Studies as Naturalized Philosophy

• Main Author: Collin, Finn (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 348
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Social sciences.; Philosophy of Science.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies. This is a novelty, since extant literature on this topic tends either to narrate the his...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The Naturalization of Philosophy
• 2. Wittgenstein, Kuhn and the Turn towards Science Studies
• 3. David Bloor and the Strong Programme
• 4. The Strong Programme as Naturalized Philosophy
• 5. Harry Collins and the Empirical Programme of Relativism
• 6. Bruno Latour and Actor Network Theory
• 7. Latour's Metaphysics
• 8. Andrew Pickering and the Mangle of Practice
• 9. Steve Fuller and Social Epistemology
• 10. An Alternative Road for Science and Technology. Studies and the Naturalization of Philosophy of Science
• Notes
• References
• Index.