0598755 - FLÚ 2025 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Maršálek, Jan
Philosophy of Science and Science and Technology Studies through the Lens of Technology.
[Prague, 30.11.2023-02.12.2023, (W-EUR 18/10)]
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/24
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : philosophy of science * science and technology studies * technical object
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result website:
https://stss.flu.cas.cz/all/events/lens-of-technology

On the international scene, the separation between ‘STS’ and philosophy of science seems more marked than ever. Since the great controversies between relativists and realists in the 1980s and the Science Wars of the 1990s, the two communities have drifted far apart, and in a sense beyond dissensus. However, a good part of STS specialists could benefit from a philosophical perspective on their work, and vice versa, philosophers of science from a better understanding of problems that have long haunted the history and sociology of science as well as STS. We believe that a reflection on the technical phenomenon in general, apart from its intrinsic importance, could shed new light on the explicitly or implicitly conflicting relationships that exist between the different traditions of analysis of the sciences. Are not the technical objects that the sciences use or produce the very place where the separation between philosophy of science and STS becomes apparent?

Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0356580