STS 3301

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Science and Technology Studies 3301: Making of Modern Science

Semester
Fall 2009.
Instructor
Suman Seth
School
Cornell

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Description

Shawn's Writings

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