... that ropes A and C were the two ends ofthe same rope and B and D were two ends of anotherrope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of anotherrope, and her explanation ... informed not only by the beauty and majesty ofthe heavens, but by a deeperunderstanding ofnatureand by an appreci-ation ofthe power ofthe human intellect.This triumph ofthe human mind says ... biological evolution and the natureand history of science. ã Chapter 5, Frequently Asked QuestionsAbout Evolution andtheNatureof Science, ”gives short answers to some ofthe questionsasked...
... toshow the relative positions and movements of the sun, planets, and moon as they cir-cled the earth. As the center ofthe uni-verse, the earth was a sphere in the center of the orrery. The other ... that ropes A and C were the two ends ofthe same rope and B and D were two ends of anotherrope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of anotherrope, and her explanation ... informed not only by the beauty and majesty ofthe heavens, but by a deeperunderstanding ofnatureand by an appreci-ation ofthe power ofthe human intellect.This triumph ofthe human mind says...
... director ofthe Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, co-founding editor of Social Studies of Science, and President oftheSociety for Social Studies of Science. Above and beyondthese ... the Sociology ofScienceandthe Sociology ofTechnology Might Benefit Each Other,” in Wiebe E. Bijker, Science andTechnology Studies and an Engaged Program 29 given way to a constellation of ... between the more “theoretical” andthe more “activist” sides to STS, but there are plenty of ScienceandTechnology Studies and an Engaged Program 19 Technical decisions are the focus of Collins and...
... 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 andthe experimental station as the sites of legitima-tion of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing theirstatus), the place ofscience ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the bound-aries ofscience put them on the outside—not just because of their...
... institutional pressures, the demands of theiremployers, their professional codes of ethics, andthe expectation that they protect the public. If an engineer mismanaged these demands, the results could ... E. Bijker (1984) The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociol-ogy ofScienceandthe Sociology ofTechnology Might Benefit Each Other,” Social Studies ofScience 14:399–431.Pinch, ... ideas—that ofthe co-production oftechnology and societyand that of sociotechnical systems and shows that they have important impli-cations for understanding the responsibilities of engineers....