STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Technoscience, Rationality, Cannibalism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Science, Technology, and Society
• Course: STS200
• Professor: Nathan Kowalsky

Document Summary

Early modernity: what can we learn about modern technoscience by looking at its provenance, baconian creed. Bacon"s beliefs continue to influence today"s technoscience: tradition and history are irrelevant, knowledge is a human construction. Bacon kind of got this from descartes (i think therefore i am) and for this reason experiments are legitimate: experiments are legitimate because they are human constructions, knowledge is power. The more power you have, the more ability you have to make things. This is how we can say science is technology. exploitation of women: technoscience will make the world paradise again, technoscience treats nature abusively technoscience will make you divine. Impediments to technoscience are false gods ie. an idol. It"s not just science. ": one example of gender in science and tech is that childbearing years are at about the same time as. The pursuit of technoscientific power is not a value-neutral endeavour. It could be problematic in some the beginning of a scientific career.