Worlds of ScienceCraft: New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies
| By: | Stingl, Alexander I, Mr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409445272 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472403827 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about minds, identities, and bodies are challenged through case studies from mathematics, social cognition, and medical ethics.
Offering innovative approaches to these issues, such as an integrated social brain-mind-body model and a critique of divisions between the natural and technological, this book provides novel conceptions of self, society and an emerging