Abstract
This paper reconsiders the relationship between STS and philosophy of science. First it tries to understand the relationship by comparing their respective relationships to science. If, as joke has it, philosophy of science to science is just like meteorology to meteors, then what is STS to science like? It turns out that their respective relationships to science are much more complicated and sophisticated. Secondly, instead of going for constructing a safe and diplomatic ”trading zone” for exchanging ideas between STS and philosophy of science, this paper suggest some more radical and perhaps more fruitful strategies, whose lessons are to come from two case studies. One is about how a philosopher of technology (Langdon Winner) independently criticizes and appropriates STS, and the other is about how a SSK scholar (David Bloor) skillfully criticizes and appropriates philosophy of science/mathematics. This paper ends with some further dialogue with a Taiwanese philosopher of science (Chen Ruey-Lin) about why philosophy of science is not a necessary condition for the conceptual developments of STS, but sometimes it can do more than simply a necessary condition.
| Translated title of the contribution | Positioning and Multiple Boundary-Crossings: A Reconsideration of STS and Philosophy of Science |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 49-102 |
| Number of pages | 54 |
| Journal | 科技醫療與社會 |
| Issue number | 16 |
| State | Published - Apr 2013 |