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The Nature of Technological Knowledge. Are Models of Scientific Change Relevant?
. Ed(S): Laudan, L (Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University, Blacksburg, Usa)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Laudan, L (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA). Series: Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs S. Num Pages: 147 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 243.
One of the ironies of our time is the sparsity of useful analytic tools for understanding change and development within technology itself. For all the diatribes about the disastrous effects of technology on modern life, for all the equally uncritical paeans to technology as the panacea for human ills, the vociferous pro- and anti-technology movements have failed to illuminate the nature of technology. On a more scholarly level, in the midst of claims by Marxists and non-Marxists alike about the technological underpinnings of the major social and economic changes of the last couple of centuries, and despite advice given to ... Read more
One of the ironies of our time is the sparsity of useful analytic tools for understanding change and development within technology itself. For all the diatribes about the disastrous effects of technology on modern life, for all the equally uncritical paeans to technology as the panacea for human ills, the vociferous pro- and anti-technology movements have failed to illuminate the nature of technology. On a more scholarly level, in the midst of claims by Marxists and non-Marxists alike about the technological underpinnings of the major social and economic changes of the last couple of centuries, and despite advice given to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
147
Condition
New
Series
Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs S.
Number of Pages
147
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048183944
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V9789048183944
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