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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.

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

 


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