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.
Introducing
The Humanities/Science Project
Critical Conversations about Life and Knowledge
The Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies announce a three-year collaborative program linking the sciences and the humanities. More.
