Philosophy, rhetoric, and the end of knowledge: the coming of science and technology studies/
Steve Fuller and James H. Collier
- 2nd ed.
- New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
- xxix, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction 2003: The More Things Remain the Same, the More They Change -- The Players and the Position -- The Players: STS, Rhetoric, and Social Epistemology -- HPS as the Prehistory of STS -- The Turn to Sociology and STS -- Rhetoric: The Theory Behind the Practice -- Enter the Social Epistemologist -- The Position: Interdisciplinarity as Interpenetration -- The Terms of the Argument -- The Perils of Pluralism -- Interpenetration's Interlopers -- The Pressure Points for Interpenetration -- The Task Ahead (and the Enemy Within) -- Here I Stand -- Interpenetration at Work -- Incorporation, or Epistemology Emergent -- Tycho on the Run -- Hegel to the Rescue -- Building the Better Naturalist -- Naturalism's Trial by Fire -- Reflexion, or the Missing Mirror of the Social Sciences -- How Science Both Requires and Imposes Discipline -- Why the Scientific Study of Science Might Just Show That There Is No Science to Study -- The Elusive Search for the Science in the Social Sciences: Deconstructing the Five Canonical Histories -- How Economists Defeated Political Scientists at Their Own Game -- The Rhetoric That Is Science -- Sublimation, or Some Hints on How to Be Cognitively Revolting -- Of Rhetorical Impasses and Forced Choices -- Some Impasses in the AI Debates -- Drawing the Battle Lines -- AI as PC-Positivism -- How My Enemy's Enemy Became My Friend -- But Now That the Coast is Clear -- Three Attempts to Clarify the Cognitive -- AI's Strange Bedfellows: Actants.
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