This is the homepage for STS2003 - Science, Technology, and Society - Fall Semester 2009, NYU-Poly.  This page will be updated periodically.
 

• Syllabus

• Lectures
• 01. Introduction
• 02. Logic & Empiricism
• 03. Confirmation
• 04. Popper
• 05. Kuhn: Immature Science
• 06. Kuhn: Normal Science
• 07. Kuhn: Crises
• 08. Kuhn: Revolutions
• 09. Sociology of Science
• 10. ANT
• 11. Feminist Approaches to Science
• 12. Science of Energy, Part I
• 13. Science of Energy, Part II
  
• 14. Science of Energy, Part III
• 15. Science of Energy, Part IV
  

• Study questions
• GSChaps1&2
• GSChaps3&4
• GSChap5/KI&II
• KIII-VIII
• GSChap6/KIX-XIII
• GSChap8/ANT/Feminism
• SChaps1-4 & Chaps5-7
  

• Paper guidelines

• Paper Topics
• Paper #1 (due Oct 1)
• Paper #2 (due Nov 12)
• Paper #3 (due Dec 8)
  

• Extra Credit
• extra credit #1 (due Tues 10/6)
• extra credit #2 (due Thurs 11/19)
  

• Links
• Relevant articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• "Thomas Kuhn"
  
• "Historicist Theories of Rationality"
  
• "The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge"
  
• "Scientific Progress"
  
• "Karl Popper"
  
• "Paul Feyerabend"
  
• "Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Sceince"
  
• "The Problem of Induction"
  
• "Scientific Explanation"