Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology

by Harding,Sandra; Harding,Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780415939911
• ISBN10: 0415939917
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What does "diversity" mean for science and technology? Although the term might evoke the now familiar feminist and gender analyses, Science and Other Cultures demonstrates that the idea of diversity in the sciences means much more than that. Sandra Harding and Robert Figueroa here bring together an important collection of original essays by leading philosophers that explore an extensive range of diversity issues as they apply to the philosophy of science and technology. Conceiving diversity in a broad new way, these essays pinpoint the cultural, racial, and ethical concerns that underlie scientific inquiry and practice. Science and Other Cultures charts important new directions in ongoing discussions of science and technology, and makes a significant contribution to both scholarly and teaching resources available in the field. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(14)
Sandra Harding
Robert Figueroa
Part I Sciences in Cultures, Cultures in Sciences
AIDS, Crisis, and Activist Science	15	(11)
Robert Hood
Why Standpoint Matters	26	(23)
Alison Wylie
A World of Sciences	49	(21)
Sandra Harding
To Walk in Balance: An Encounter between Contemporary Western Science and Conquest-era Nahua Philosophy	70	(21)
James Maffie
Seeds and their Sociocultural Nexus	91	(15)
Hugh Lacey
Fallout: Issues in the Study, Treatment, and Reparations of Exposed Marshall Islanders	106	(23)
Robert P. Crease
Part II Classifying People: Science and Technology at Our Service
Essentially Empirical: The Roles of Biological and Legal Classification in Effectively Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination	129	(25)
Anita Silvers
Michael Ashley Stein
Rethinking Normalcy, Normalization, and Cognitive Disability	154	(18)
Licia Carlson
Conformity through Cosmetic Surgery: The Medical Erasure of Race and Disability	172	(17)
Sara Goering
The Wisconsin Card Sort: An Empirical and Philosophical Analysis of Presuppositions Regarding Flexibility of Cognition	189	(12)
Sara Waller
Geography and Ideas of Race	201	(20)
Naomi Zack
Queer Nature, Circular Science	221	(16)
Margaret Cuonzo
Part III Tradition and Modernity: Issues in Philosophies of Technological Change
Technology in a Global World	237	(15)
Andrew Feenberg
Creativity of Technology and the Modernization Process of Japan	252	(15)
Junichi Murata
Contributors	267	(4)
Index	271