Early in the last century the successes of science led a group of French thinkers to apply the principles of science to the study of society. These thinkers purported to have discovered the supposed 'laws' of society and concluded that an elite of social scientists should assume direct control of social life. The Counter-Revolution of Science is Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek's...(展开全部)

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most ph...(展开全部)

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most ph...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 布鲁诺•拉图尔，法国当代著名科学哲学家、人类学家和社会学家，行动者网络理论创立者之一，科学技术论（Science and Technology Studies）学界的重要代表人物。他先后任教于巴黎高等矿业学校、巴黎政治学院。主要著作有《实验室生活：科学事实的建构过程》（1979，与伍尔加合著）、《细菌：战争与和平》（1984）、《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》（1987）、《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》（1991）、《阿哈米斯或对技术的爱》（1992）、《潘多拉的希望：科学论中的实在》（1999）、《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》（1999）、《重组社会：行动者网络理论导论》（2005）、《实存模式探究：现代人的人类学》（2013）等。 -译者简介- 史晨，哲学博士，南京大学哲学系助理研究员，主要研究方向为科技哲学...(展开全部)

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides...(展开全部)

Science and Technology Studies is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their cultural, historical, and social contexts. The New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field, reviewing current research and major theoretical and me...(展开全部)

The conceptual history of cognitive science remains for the most part unwritten. In this groundbreaking book, Jean-Pierre Dupuy--one of the principal architects of cognitive science in France--provides an important chapter: the legacy of cybernetics. Contrary to popular belief, Dupuy argues, cybernetics represented not the anthropomorphization of the machine but the mechanizati...(展开全部)

A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world. We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under poli...(展开全部)