Harding / Figueroa Science and Other Cultures

Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-72732-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harding, Sandra

Figueroa, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Science and Other Cultures
Sandra Harding and Robert Figueroa

Part I Sciences in Cultures, Cultures in Sciences

AIDS, Crisis, and Activist Science
Robert Hood

Why Standpoint Matters
Alison Wylie

A World of Sciences
Sandra Harding

To Walk in Balance: An Encounter between Contemporary Western Science and Conquest-era Nahua Philosophy
James Maffie

Seeds and their SocioCultural Nexus
Hugh Lacey

Fallout: Issues in the Study, Treatment, and Reparations of Exposed Marshall Islanders
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
Anita Silvers and Michael Ashley Stein

Rethinking Normalcy, Normalization and Cognitive Disability
Licia Carlson

Conformity through Cosmetic Surgery: The Medical Erasure of Race and Disability
Sara Goering

The Wisconsin Card Sort: An Empirical and Philosophical Analysis of Presuppositions Regarding Flexibility of Cognition
Sara Waller

Geography and Ideas of Race
Naomi Zack

Queer Nature, Circular Science
Margaret Cuonzo

Part III: Tradition and Modernity: Issues in Philosophies of Technological Change

Technology in a Global World
Andrew Feenberg

Creativity of Technology and the Modernization Process of Japan
Junichi Murata

Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Figueroa teaches in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Colgate University. He has published essays on environmental justice and Latino identity. Sandra Harding is a Professor of Education and Women's Studies at UCLA. She is the author and editor of over ten books including Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (1991) and Is Science Multicultural? (1998) and has served as a consultant to several United Nations organizations.