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... that ropes A and C were the two ends of the same rope and B and D were two ends of another rope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of another rope, and her explanation ... informed not only by the beauty and majesty of the heavens, but by a deeper understanding of nature and by an appreci- ation of the power of the human intellect. This triumph of the human mind says ... biological evolution and the nature and history of science. ã Chapter 5, Frequently Asked Questions About Evolution and the Nature of Science, ” gives short answers to some of the questions asked...

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... to show the relative positions and movements of the sun, planets, and moon as they cir- cled the earth. As the center of the uni- verse, the earth was a sphere in the center of the orrery. The other ... that ropes A and C were the two ends of the same rope and B and D were two ends of another rope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of another rope, and her explanation ... informed not only by the beauty and majesty of the heavens, but by a deeper understanding of nature and by an appreci- ation of the power of the human intellect. This triumph of the human mind says...

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... director of the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, co-founding editor of Social Studies of Science, and President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Above and beyond these ... the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,” in Wiebe E. Bijker, Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program 29 given way to a constellation of ... between the more “theoretical” and the more “activist” sides to STS, but there are plenty of Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program 19 Technical decisions are the focus of Collins and...

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... the 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 insti- tutional ... 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, ... British government’s Of ce of Science and Innovation, part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), emphasizes the shift from the older PUS (Public Understanding of Science) model to a new...

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... is the result and is the result and not the not the cause of a machine the “social” is the result and not the not the cause of a machine cause of a statement becoming a successful cause of the ... technoscientific definitions of the real. The latter include divisions of subject and object, human and nonhuman, nature and culture, and relatedly, same and other, us and them. Feminist scholars ... research design and implementation across the life of the project. They allow researchers to track all of the elements in the situation and to analyze their relationality. All the maps can, of course,...

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... processes of inquiry and discussion—even if understanding the product depends on the process. We normally divide the content of an argument into two parts: the conclusion or point of the argument, and ... Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin). Gascoigne, John (1998) Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the ... relevance for studies of scientific practice even in the age of global networks and standardized settings. The question of “who?” of how to conceptualize actors and their identities—is, of course, equally...

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... to the work of science and technology in terms of both the processes of production and the resulting products. The chal- lenge of SIV is now to incorporate together the work of science and technology ... embed- dedness of the practices of the making and handling of visual representations and of the shaping, distributing, applying, and embodying of scientific visual knowledge. If seeing is so often believing, ... categorization, and analogy. The Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology 269 approaches first established in the study of science. This is apparent in the work pre- sented in The Nature of Technological...

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... Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). Wouters, P. (2005) The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ... defining the laboratory and the experimental station as the sites of legitima- tion of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing their status), the place of science ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the bound- aries of science put them on the outside—not just because of their...

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