Science,Technology, and Human Values
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 105SO20 | Z | 2 | 0+2 |
- Lecturer:
- Radim Hladík (gar.)
- Tutor:
- Radim Hladík (gar.)
- Supervisor:
- Department of Social Sciences
- Synopsis:
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How do scientist produce scientific knowledge? How is the latter demarcated from other types of knowledge in society? Why do the optimal technological solutions fail to spread? How do politics and economics contribute to the agenda of science and technology? How are science and technology responsible to ethical and developmental concerns? This reading-intensive seminar is designed to raise awareness of engineering students to these and similar questions. Students are invited to thoroughly study the problems addressed by the assigned readings and offer their own, informed perspective on them
- Requirements:
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no prerequisites
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1.Introduction, course overview
2.Boundary Work in Science
3.Technology and Economics
4.Science and Politics
5.Science, Technology, and War
6.Laboratory and Ethnomethodology of Science
7.Technology of Human Bodies
8.Science and Sustainable Development
9.Gender Perspective on Science
10.Ethics for Science and Technology
11.Social movements in Science and Technology
12.Science in the 21st Century
13.Revision of covered topics, course evaluation
For a successful completion of the course, attendance, participation, and in-class presentation (or a critical commentary in writing on a selected text) are required.
- Syllabus of tutorials:
- Study Objective:
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A goal of this course is to acquire a basic knowledge on social, politicala and ecological dimension of comtemporary science and technology.
- Study materials:
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Gieryn, Thomas F. 1999. Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. 1991. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge.
Knorr-Cetina, Karin. 1999. Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Latour, Bruno. 1987. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
MacKenzie, Donald and Judy Wajcman, eds. 1985; 1995, 2nd ed. The Social Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got its Hum. Pennsylvania: Open University Press.
- Note:
- Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:
- Time-table is not available yet
- Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Fri Thu Fri - The course is a part of the following study plans: