Feedback Loops

Pragmatism about Science and Technology

AvAndrew Wells Garnar,Ashley Shew

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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In a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to find ways to make sense of how science, technology, and society connect. In Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science & Technology, editors Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew bring together original writing from philosophers and science and technology studies scholars to provide novel ways of rethinking the relationships among science, technology, education, and society. Through critiquing and exploring the work of philosopher of science and technology Joseph C. Pitt, the authors featured in this volume investigate the complexities of contemporary technoscience, writing on topics ranging from super-computing to pedagogy, engineering to biotechnology patents, and scientific instruments to disability studies. Taken together, these chapters develop an argument about the necessity of using pragmatism to foster a more productive relationship among science, technology and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-03
Mått:162 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:Pitt,JosephC.
ISBN:9781498597623

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Andrew Wells Garnar earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. Ashley Shew is assistant professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.

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I had the honor of being the first to graduate with a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech; Joe Pitt was my supervisor. When I decided to ask Joe to be my PhD supervisor, my fellow graduate students thought I must be out of my mind because Joe Pitt had a reputation (unfair in my opinion) of being a tough and nasty professor. What motivated me to ask Joe as my PhD supervisor was because both Joe and I were interested in the T part of the STS equation, contrary to the dominant trend of the time assuming STS as just “science studies.” I believe my decision to ask Joe to be my supervisor was one of the best decisions I made in my academic career. As a practicing engineer who was fascinated by the emerging field of STS, I was flabbergasted by the uncritical deployment of postmodern and post-structuralist theories used to “unpack,” “deconstruct,” and, essentially, blame science and technology for the problems of the world, whether it had to do with the economy, politics, the environment or social anomie. What we shared in common was our pragmatic approach science and technology as neither value-free nor neutral. This volume is an excellent and timely tribute to appreciate Joe’s major contribution to understanding technology as tools and a form of knowledge.

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPrefaceAndrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew1 The Pursuit of Machoflops: the Rise and Fall of High Performance ComputingAnne C. Fitzpatrick2 The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology: The Intersection of Technology and the LawRonald Laymon3 A Defense of Sicilian RealismAndrew Wells Garnar4 Quasi-fictional IdealizationNicholas Rescher5 Technological Knowledge in Disability DesignAshley Shew6 The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-ReflectionIvan Guajardo7 A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic PhilosophyThomas Staley8 Moral values in technical artifactsPeter Kroes9 Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts – Reflections on Pragmatism and Philosophy in Engineering EducationBrandiff R. Caron10 Gravity and TechnologyAllan Franklin11 Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of PedagogyJames H. CollierAfterwordJoseph C. Pitt