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Science transformed? : debating claims of an epochal break /

"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 an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schiemann, Gregor (Editor ), Radder, Hans (Editor ), Nordmann, Alfred, 1956- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Science after the end of science? An introduction to the "epochal break thesis" / Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, 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, Tarja Knuuttila
  • Science and its recent history: from an epochal break to novel, nonlocal 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 concept of experiment: probing the epochal break / Astrid Schwarz, Wolf.