New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies

On November 10 Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick gave a lecture ‘New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies’. The event is organized by the HSE Faculty of Philosophy with the participation of Logico-philosophical club.

Steve Fuller, a leading figure in the field, argues that STS has much to lose if it abandons philosophy. In last two decades STS has become focused on technoscience and regulatory science and the new institutional realities of science. However, there have been some other topics that are still not attended enough: the public justification and face of science, the ways in which science understands the problem of the unity of knowledge, new meanings of old concepts, such as fraud and consensus. In his characteristically provocative style, he offered his own treatment of the philosophical and sociological foundations of STS, raised the issues of the Science Wars, the Intelligent Design Theory controversy, and described the special role of some STS theorists such as Bruno Latour.