Chasing Technoscience

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Pub. Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary

"... an original, quirky, and illuminating collection of material concerning the relatively new and exciting field of technoscience studies.... [T]he editors' choice of multiple approaches to the work of four major figures is wholly suited to clarifying their unorthodox and consequently somewhat elusive philosophical positions." -- Robert ScharffAlthough often absent from the considerations of philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists, the material dimension plays an important and even essential role in the practices of the sciences. Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality begins to redress this absence by bringing together four prominent figures who make technoscience, or science embodied in its technologies, a central theme of their work. Through lively personal interviews and substantive essays, the ideas of Andrew Pickering, Don Ihde, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour are brought to bear on the question of materiality in technoscience. The work of these theorists is then compared and critiqued in essays by colleagues. Chasing Technoscience is a ground-breaking, state-of-the-art look at current developments in technoscience.

Author Biography

Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is Director of the Technoscience Research Group at Stony Brook and is affiliated with the History of Science and Women's Studies programs. He is the author of thirteen other books, including Instrumental Realism and Technology and the Lifeworld (both Indiana University Press).

Evan Selinger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he is writing his dissertation on the topic of expertise and authority. His publications include "Dreyfus on Expertise: The Limits of Phenomenological Analysis," which appeared in Continental Philosophy Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(14)
PART ONE
Don Ihde
PART TWO
Evan Selinger
PART ONE
Interview with Bruno Latour
15(12)
Robert Crease
Don Ihde
Casper Bruun Jensen
Evan Selinger
The Promises of Constructivism
27(20)
Bruno Latour
Interview with Donna Haraway
47(11)
Randi Markussen
Finn Olesen
Nina Lykke
Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience
58(25)
Donna Haraway
Interview with Andrew Pickering
83(13)
Casper Bruun Jensen
On Becoming: Imagination, Metaphysics, and the Mangle
96(21)
Andrew Pickering
Interview with Don Ihde
117(14)
Robb Eason
Jeremy Hubbell
Jari Friis Jergenssen
Srikanth Mallavarapu
Nikos Plevris
Evan Selinger
If Phenomenology Is an Albatross, Is Post-phenomenology Possible?
131(16)
Don Ihde
PART TWO
Interdisciplinary Provocateurs: Philosophically Assessing Haraway and Pickering
147(20)
Evan Selinger
Hypertext: Rortean Links between Ihde and Haraway
167(15)
Robb Eason
Do You Believe in Ethics? Latour and Ihde in the Trenches of the Science Wars (Or: Watch Out, Latour, Ihde's Got a Gun)
182(13)
Aaron Smith
Distance and Alignment: Haraway's and Latour's Nietzschean Legacies
195(18)
Casper Bruun Jensen
Evan Selinger
A Garden Meeting: Ihde and Pickering
213(12)
Jari Friis Jorgenssen
Latour and Pickering: Post-human Perspectives on Science, Becoming, and Normativity
225(16)
Casper Bruun Jensen
Contributors 241(4)
Index 245

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