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100 1 $aFuller, Steve,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87903839
245 10 $aPhilosophy, rhetoric, and the end of knowledge :$bthe coming of science and technology studies /$cSteve W. Fuller.
260 $aMadison, Wisc. :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$c[1993], ©1993.
263 $a9303
300 $axxii, 421 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aRhetoric of the human sciences
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 393-414) and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. The Players: STS, Rhetoric, Social Epistemology. HPS as the prehistory of STS. The turn to sociology and STS. Rhetoric: The theory behind the practice. Enter the social epistemologist -- Ch. 2. 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 -- Ch. 3. Incorporation, or Epistemology Emergent. Tycho on the run. Hegel to the rescue. Building the better naturalist -- Conclusion: Naturalism's trial by fire -- Ch. 4. Reflexion, or the Missing Mirror of the Social Sciences. Why the scientific study of science might just show that there is no science to study. The elusive search for science in the social sciences: Deconstructing the five canonical historiographies. How economists defeated political scientists at their own game -- Conclusion: The rhetoric that is science.
505 0 $aCh. 5. Sublimation, or Some Hints on How to be Cognitively Revolting -- Introduction: Of rhetorical impasses and forced choices. Some impasses in the artificial intelligence 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 -- Ch. 6. Excavation, or the Withering Away of History and Philosophy of Science and the Brave New World of Science and Technology Studies. Positioning social epistemology in the tradition from HPS to STS. The price of humanism in historical scholarship. A symmetry principle for historicism. Historicism's version of the cold war. Under- and overdetermining history. When in doubt, experiment. STS as the posthistory of HPS -- Ch. 7. Knowledge Policy: Where's the Playing Field? Science policy: The very idea. An aside on science journalism. Managing the unmanageable. The social construction of society.
505 0 $aThe constructive rhetoric of knowledge policy. Armed for policy: Fad-laden values and hypothetical imperatives. Machiavelli redux? A recap on values as a prelude to politics -- Ch. 8. Knowledge Politics: What Position Shall I Play? Philosophy as protopolitics. Have science and democracy outgrown each other? Back from postmodernism and into the public sphere. Beyond academic indifference -- Postscript: The social epistemologist at the bargaining table -- Ch. 9. Opposing the Relativist. The Socratic legacy to relativism. The sociology of knowledge debates: Will the real relativist please stand up? -- Interlude I: An inventory of relativisms -- Interlude II: Mannheim's realistic relativism. Is relativism obsolete? Counterrelativist models of knowledge production -- Ch. 10. Opposing the Antitheorist. A Fish story about theory. What exactly does "Theory has no consequences" mean? Fish's positivistic theory of "theory" Toward a more self-critical positivist theory of "theory".
505 0 $aThe universality, abstractness, and foolproofness of theory. Convention, autonomy, and Fish's "paper radicalism" Consequential theory: An account of presumption -- Postscript: The World of Tomorrow, as Opposed to the World of Today -- Appendix: Course Outlines For Science and Technology Studies in a Rhetorical Key.
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650 0 $aScience$xSocial aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118585
650 0 $aKnowledge, Theory of.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072732
650 0 $aRhetoric$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113631
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124013
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