May 2009
Beginner
592 pages
22h 39m
English
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen, Vincent F. Hendricks
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References and Further Reading
Barnes, B. (1974). Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).
Fujimura, J. (1992). “Crafting Science: Standardized Packages, Boundary Objects, and ‘Translation’,” in Pickering (1992).
Gremmen, B. (1993). “The Mystery of the Practical Use of Scientific Knowledge,” PhD dissertation, University of Twente.
Latour, B. (1987). Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society (Milton Keynes/Cambridge, Mass.: Open University Press/Harvard University Press).
Price, D. J. de Solla (1965). “Is Technology Historically Independent of Science? A Study in Statistical Historiography,” Technology and Culture, 6: 553–68.
Rip, A. (1992), “Science and Technology as Dancing Partners,” in P. Kroes and M. Bakker (eds), Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age, pp. 231–70.
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