issues the role of communications and scientific thinking barbara schaal
Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies: International Workshop Proceedings doc
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14/03/2014, 11:20
... SOCIETY ISSUES The Role of Communications and Scientific Thinking Barbara Schaal Knowledge, Validation, and Transfer: Science, Communication, and Economic Development John Enderby The Morality of ... to the sayings of the sages of old and modern times, I would like to offer my own definitions of culture and morality In my view, the mix of the beliefs and deeds of a society constitutes the ... scorching sun of their habitat by covering virtually all parts of their bodies On the other hand, the inhabitants of the wet tropics have to minimize their clothing to enhance the ventilation of the body,...
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the handbook of science and technology studies
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06/07/2014, 15:31
... Studies of Science, and President of the Society for Social Studies of Science Above and beyond these leadership roles, he was and remains a guiding spirit for the field As we reflect on the central themes ... science and technology often contribute to projects the benefits, costs, and risks of which are very unevenly distributed In recognition of this fact, and in the context of a critique of the idea of ... extensions of the field into the terrain of technoscientific politics: constructions of phenomena of interest, natures of interests themselves, histories and uses of civic epistemologies and not only their...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 2 pptx
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11/08/2014, 05:22
... democratization of science and technology come to the fore THE LANGUAGE OF STS AND THE LANGUAGE OF POLICY The broad context of the crisis of representation, and the question of whether institutional ... to a state of affairs, and so on; (6) direct perception is the end and not the beginning of the process of fact genesis Fact is the provisional end of the vector and all the questions of correspondence ... both elicit, they are rendered comparable by the process of time to which they both submit The great virtue of the innovative directors and designers of the gallery, on the top floor of the Museum,...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 3 pps
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11/08/2014, 05:22
... from the point of view of the AI prac- Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 145 titioners studied by Forsythe is imagined in terms of process engineering, the design and management of ... examines the relations between two broad arenas of scholarship and technology building at the intersection of femi- Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 153 nism and the sciences of the ... ways of understanding the world of social actors, they also need to understand the ways in which their theories of the social world are interpreted by those social actors In other words, the ideas,...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 4 pptx
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11/08/2014, 05:22
... questions about the social persuasiveness and power of images and about the role of science in the constitution of identity and seeing As Burri and Dumit remind us in their work on images and the authors ... Giere and Miriam Solomon, both of whom investigate the intersection between STS and the new practice-oriented philosophical studies of science In philosophy, the abandonment of the grand project of ... attention to the exigencies of goals, modalities, and audiences In all these respects, these studies share the concerns and approaches of STS studies of discourse, yet at the same time they offer us...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 5 pot
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) Churchland, Paul M (1996) The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain ... Lynch, any claims about the relation between the endurance of the factual products of the laboratory and the practice at the lab are not actually part of his project At the end of his ethnography, ... because the early antidemarcationist studies left off of their stated project at the outset, and because the field left off of them presuming the job had been accomplished, this has contributed to the...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 6 doc
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... embodiment and proof of the thesis of the network society (Castells, 2001) Vann (2004) has identified a similar “technicism” and analytical reduction on the part of some contemporary theorists of “immaterial” ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the boundaries of science put them on the outside—not just because of their ... the people” were excluded By defining the laboratory and the experimental station as the sites of legitimation of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing their...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 7 pdf
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... between the abstract and formalized estimates of the experts and the perception of risk by the farmers caused a loss of confidence by the latter in the government experts and their conviction that of cial ... science and technology and between the role of the scientist and that of the engineer It’s a distinction that now makes less and less sense: we’re all engineers now, and the authority of science ... bits of the world but to the right thing? The scientist is not a priest.” That’s another way of identifying the limited authority of the modern scientist, and the nonpriestly status of the scientist...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 8 ppt
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... range of factors, including the epidemiological significance of the condition, the availability of an unequivocal diagnostic test, the social class of the sufferers, the degree of activism, and the ... the state,” and the market,” and of course—between “science” and “politics” (Epstein, 2001) Observation of patient groups and health movements reveals, on the one hand, cases of patients and ... expanding variety of ways—indeed, there is probably a complex interaction between the spread of analytical categories, on the one hand, and of the selfdescriptions mobilized by the groups and...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 9 doc
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... permeates much of the work of the time Indeed, much of the literature of the 1980s and early 1990s can be seen as digesting the implications of engineering being practiced in the context of business ... reinforce the conventional boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, the political and the scientific, government and the public, the EEA concept is to be open to the transgression of boundaries and ... for a discussion and overview of the historical accounts of the birth and the development of a consumer society 13 See Lury (1996) for a discussion of the different views of the relationship...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 10 pdf
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... that the other historical trends described above of the globalization of corporate trade and investment, and the crisis of the research universities, come into their own The breakdown of the Chandlerian ... influence the selection of the topic and the recruitment of experts A summary of these participatory events can be found in Rowe and Frewer (2005) 14 This is, of course, the standard way of thinking ... middle of the nineteenth century Yet, in rejecting the false polarities of the neo-Mertonians on the one hand and the economic apologists for the modern era on the other, it would appear that the...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 11 ppt
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... (London: Department of Trade and Industry) The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS 689 Van Horn, Robert (unpublished) The Rise of the Chicago School of Law and Economics,” Ph.D ... universities and technological institutes As Noble (1977) argues, these were also facilitated by the professionalization of science and technology and the alignment of the professions with the emerging ... Journalists and scholars in a variety of disciplines routinely describe the twenty-first century as the era of the knowledge society, and they often highlight the central role that the increased...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 12 pptx
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... understandings of evidence and proof, the aims of advocacy, the nature of expertise, and indeed the status of science in relation to politics and power are all refracted through the lenses of the law STS scholarship ... board the shaping influence of legal imperatives and imaginations, and of necessity the work of legal practitioners and institutions The law, moreover, operates with its own ideas of facticity and ... epistemology, and culture The section on engagements traces the relationship of science and technology with the law as a historical phenomenon and an emerging field of academic inquiry The theme of authority...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 13 ppt
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... well as the practices and procedures associated with them Yet there are conceptualizations of users, of the nature of illness and susceptibility, and of the relations among technologies and the body ... management of uncertainty in genetic testing services in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, where she argued that the construction of expectations and the management of the future are shaped by the ... CREATION OF NEW GENOMIC IDENTITIES One of the most influential recent strands of argument in the field of the social studies of the life sciences concerns ideas of biosociality (Rabinow, 1996a) and...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 14 pot
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... assumption of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) The presence of a large number of actors in the market, acting independently of each other, handling all the relevant information they can get, ... being the concept of performativity, which can be seen as an extension and modification of the notion of agency developed in the sociology of science and technology Another example is the concept of ... Preda, 2004b) At the same time, the impact of financial theory on markets, together with the prominent role played by technology, raises the issue of agency: how are the structures of financial action...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 15 ppt
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics and Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University of Virginia Professor Johnson’s ... long-standing debates in the STS community about the role of researchers in influencing their objects of study These concerns have also been expressed in language of the “entanglement” of social and ... Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam Her research focuses on the development of the biomedical sciences, the history of epidemiology, and the interactions between the laboratory, the clinic, and public...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 16 ppsx
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11/08/2014, 05:23
... political theory communitarianism, conservatism, and the sociology of science, 69–71 critical theory, multiculturalism, feminism, 71–73 language of STS and the language of policy, 78–79 liberalism and, ... science/scientists, 770–771 experts and expertise in the, 619, 766, 776 the language of, 762 making science in the court, 455–456 morality of the, 764 natural law and judicial decision-making, 765–766 ... commodification and commercial exploitation of, 823–825 conclusion, 830–831 contextual vs transformational theme in, 819–823, 827 expectations public and professional, 827 role in the development of, 819...
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Potential biogas production from sewage sludge: A case study of the sewage treatment plant at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, Ghana
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05/09/2013, 16:11
... During these periods the university is on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of ... halls of residence, main library and faculty buildings on campus are connected as shown in Figure 1, the same cannot be said of the residential apartment of lecturers and other staff of the university ... potential of the solid waste is very difficult to determine because of the method of collection, the glasses, plastics, cans, papers, etc are collected together However, the liquid is of one kind...
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