Questions tagged [science-and-technology-studies]
Questions related to science and technology studies (or science, technology and society studies, STS), an interdisciplinary branch of the social sciences that studies the relationship between society, politics and culture on the one hand, and scientific research and technological innovation on the other.
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The literary study of scientific argument
I just discovered the book The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies, edited by Peter Dear (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). To me, that seems like an oxymoron: how can ...
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To what extent was literary criticism being applied to scientific works at the time Darwin's Plots was written?
I'm reading Gillian Beer's Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. This book is essentially a work of literary criticism of Darwin's theory of ...
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Understanding political subtexts in the Turing test paper
Alan Turing's article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (which you can read online) is commonly interpreted as introducing the Turing test. Briefly, the Turing test is when you have two computer ...
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