What is Science and Technology Studies?
Students and scholars in the field of science and technology studies want to know how scientific knowledge is produced. We believe that the idealized accounts of knowledge production entrenched in our scientific belief system are inadequate, given the complexity of the process they claim to describe.
STS scholars seek to understand how science operates by analyzing historical case studies, observing contemporary scientists at work, examining representations of scientific ideas in textbooks or journals, and studying the infrastructure of scientific institutions.
This interdisciplinary field brings together anthropologists, philosophers, historians, art historians, literary theorists, sociologists and practicing scientists and technologists.
CONGRATS!
"Best Undergraduate Thesis in the field of Science and Technology Studies" awards go to:
Rachel Blatt '09 - Anthropology
Molly Cohen '09- Science and Society; Geology
Colin Fitzpatrick '09 - Music
STS TIMES
Congratulations to Committee on Science and Technology Studies (COSTS) faculty members and students who have recently received funding for STS-related initiatives.
For details, and more STS news, please check the latest issue of STS Times as well as the Archive.
Darwin's Evolution
200 Years Later - A Celebration and Examination
Check out the lineup in this series of past events, part of the Humanities/Science Project for academic year 2008-2009
Announcing
Nature's Legacy:
Humanists, Scientists and the Environment
A film and panel series for 2009 - 2010
Save the date for the
New England premier of
"Butte, America" - Sept. 23
On campus, with the film's producer and director
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY DUG
Meet other concentrators and professors of STS!
Come to the next S&S DUG event: contact organizer
Mark_Caine@brown.edu for information
Illustration: K. Morales
Reading List
NEW! from the STS field:
Sciences From Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Sandra Harding, Duke University Press (2008)
When Species Meet (Posthumanities)
Donna Harawy, University of Minnesota Press (2008)
The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World
Peter Dear, Univ. of Chicago Press (2008)
For more STS books and resources, click here.