Dissent and Diversity in Science and Technology Studies: Reply to Fuller, Kasavin and Shipovalova, and Turner.

My argument in I Minority Report: Dissent and Diversity in Science i is that Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend reconciled historicist and normative philosophy of science in ways that suggest a productive path forward for Science and Technology Studies (STS) and history and philosophy of science today...

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Published in:Philosophy of the Social Sciences Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 306 - 322
Main Author: Lynch, William T
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Published: Sage Publications Inc. Sep2022
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