Reconsideration of Science and Technology III - An Open World

Drawing on debates from traditional and postmodern thoughts on science and technology, the title builds a new theoretical framework to reconsider science and technology, integrating the opposing viewpoints that either justify science or negate it.

List of contents

Introduction, Part 1: Complementary Value Choices, 1. Diversified Value Choices, 2. Objectivity and Uniqueness, 3. Universality and Locality, 4. Reason and Unreason, Part 2: Scientific Culture and Cultural Science, 5. Loss and Awakening of Scientific Culture, 6. Openness Reconstruction of Cultural Science

About the author

Liu Dachun is a Distinguished Professor at Renmin University of China and also a pioneer and leading scholar of Chinese philosophy of science and technology. He specializes in philosophy of science, STS (science, technology and society) and history of scientific thought.
Yang Huili is a Lecturer of Philosophy at the School of Humanities, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. She specializes in the research of philosophy of science, STS and engineering ethics.
Fan Shanshan is a Lecturer at the School of Marxism, Capital Normal University, China. She specializes in the research of philosophy of science, dialectics of nature and Marx’s view of science and technology.

Summary

Drawing on debates from traditional and postmodern thoughts on science and technology, the title builds a new theoretical framework to reconsider science and technology, integrating the opposing viewpoints that either justify science or negate it.

Product details

• Authors: Wang Bolu, Liu Dachun, Liu Bolu Dachun, Yang Huili, Ding Junqiang, Fan Shanshan, Liu Yongmou
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032299006
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229900-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: China Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Far-left political ideologies and movements, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism