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Almost every week I wrote a response paper, and sometimes included an epigraph or [[science history haiku]]. | |||
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Revision as of 21:20, 8 November 2009
Science and Technology Studies 3301: Making of Modern Science
- Semester
- Fall 2009.
- Instructor
- Suman Seth
- School
- Cornell
(Make a course template:date, instructor, school, everything here perhaps)
Description
Shawn's Writings
Almost every week I wrote a response paper, and sometimes included an epigraph or science history haiku.
Bibliography
Concepts
- Blame
- Citation
- Classification by nation
- Conservation
- Constancy
- Constants
- Crisis
- Critical opalescence
- Determinism
- Dissipation
- Doom
- Drawing on sources
- Dynamic states vs. static states
- Economy
- Empiricism
- Enlightenment
- Free will
- Generalization
- Geographical environment
- Hypothesis, avoidance of
- Indoctrination
- Industrialization of learning
- Industrialization of scientific endeavor
- Lab technology
- Liberality
- Loyalty
- Machines of enlightenment
- Mentorship
- Nationalism
- Normal Science begets its own revolutions
- Objective
- Patronage
- Phenomena
- Philosophy
- Physical hypothesis
- Piety
- Precision
- Predictability
- Progress
- Pure vs. applied science
- Puzzle-solving
- Reductionism
- Salvation
- Schooling
- Seeking an ideal state
- Selective understanding
- Self-preservation of scientific endeavors in greater society
- Self-preservation of scientists among peers
- Self-preservation of scientists in greater society
- Simplification
- Social Acceptability
- Social Classes
- Social order
- Specialization
- Standardization
- Statistics, normalcy, deviance
- Steady state
- Subjective
- Technical application
- Theory vs. experiment
- Tradition
- Training
- Unification
- Universality
- Utilitarianism
- Waste
