"STS"あるいは「科学技術研究」についてII (1)

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The Part II of the STS series deals with the Twentieth Century Science and Technology. The concept of research program, once proposed by Imre Lakatos, is generalized for application to the STS of the present time. On this subject so many issues are now under investigation that any productive research might not be performed without research programs deduced from a cleanly defined scheme. The following grograms, which are derived from the scheme in the Part I Chapter 3 of this series, would be available to this purpose: Philosophy of Science Research Programs, Sociology of Science Research Programs, and Science, Technology and Industry Research Program. Present article is an introduction of the Part II. The three programs are testified by applying to the studies of the Nineteenth Century science and technology: the critical study of the basis of modern science, emergence of the scientific and technical communities, and rise of science based industry and related technological R & D institutions. These features are quite different from those of the modem science and technology which have prevailed in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Rather, they exhibited the same characteristics as those of the Twentieth Century Science and Technology which shall be discussed in the subsequent papers..
桃山学院大学の論文
1997-03-15