Prelim List for Wyatt Galusky

Date of Tests: 27-30 November 2000

Date of Oral Defense: 4 December 2000 (9am)

 

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

Books (20): (* = official prelim list selection)

*Bowler, P. (1988). The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

*Chandler, A. (1977). The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

*Cowan, R. (1983). More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books.

*Foucault, M. (1970). The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Random House.

*Galison, P. and B. Hevly, eds. (1992). Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Haraway, D. (1992). Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. London: Verso.

*Hays, S. (1987). Beauty Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in The United States, 1955-1985. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Hounshell, D. (1984). From the American System to Mass Production 1800 -1932. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hughes, T. (1983). Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

*Kevles, D. (1978). The Physicists. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

*Kragh, H. (1987). An Introduction to the Historiography of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Kuhn, T. (1957). The Copernican Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Merchant, C. (1989). Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press.

*Noble, D. (1977). America by Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism. New York: Knopf.

Nye, D. (1990). Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

*Schiebinger, L. (1989). The Mind Has No Sex? Women in Origins of Modem Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

*Shapin, S. (1996). The Scientific Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

*Shapin, S. and S. Schaffer. (1985). Leviathan and the Air-Pump.: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

White, R. (1995), The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang.

Young, R. (1985). Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University.

 

Articles:

*Forman, P. (1991). "Independence, Not Transcendence, for the Historian of Science." ISIS 82: 71-86.

*Golinski, J. (1990). "The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory: Sociological Approaches in the History of Science." Isis 81:492-505.

 

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

Books (20):

*Basalla, G. (1988). The Evolution of Technology. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

*Duhem. P. (1969). To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo, trans. E. Doland and C. Maschler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Feenberg, A. (1991). Critical Theory of Technology. New York: Oxford University Press.

*Feyerabend, P. (1970). "Against Method" in M. Radner and s. Winokur, eds., Analyses and Methods of Physics and Psychology (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 4). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970, pp. 17-130.

*Fine, A. (1996). The Shaky Game, 2nd ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

*Galison, P. (1987). How Experiments End. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

*Galison, P. and D. Stump. (1996). The Disunity of Science: Boundaries , Contexts, and Power. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

*Giere, R. (1988). Explaining Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

*Hacking, I. (1983). Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. New York: Cambridge University Press.

*Harding, S. (1991). Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

*Hempel, C. (1965). Aspects of Scientific Explanation. NY: The Free Press. Chapters l, 4, and 10 ("Studies in the Logic of Confirmation," "Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes," and "Studies in the Logic of Explanation").

Ihde, D. (1991). Instrumental Realism: the Interface between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

*Kuhn, T. ([1962] 1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

*Lakatos, I. and A. Musgrave, eds. (1970). Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press.

*Laudan, L. (1977). Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

*Longino, H. (1990) Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

*Pitt, J., ed. (1995). New Directions in the Philosophy of Technology, Vol 11 in Philosophy and Technology series, Dordrecht: Kluwer [articles by Pitt, Kroes, Wachtel, and Hickman].

*Popper, K. (1963) Conjectures and Refutations. New York: Harper and Row. Introduction ("On the Sources of Knowledge and Ignorance"), Chaps. 1-3, 10 and 1l ("Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge." "Science: Conjectures and Refutations, "The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science," "Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge," and "The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics"), pp. 3-119 and 2I5-292.

*Rouse, J. (1996). Engaging Science: How to Understand its Practices Philosophically. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

*Tuana, N., ed. (1989). Feminism and Science. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

 

Articles:

*Layton, E. (1971). "Mirror Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in 19th Century America," Technology and Culture 12:562-580.

*Layton, E. (1987). "Through the Looking Glass, or the News from Lake Mirror Image," Technology and Culture 28:594-607.

*Pitt, J. (1998). "Developments in the Philosophy of Science 1960-1995". Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Supplementary volume.

*Quine, W.V.O., (1951). "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," Philosophical Review, multiply reprinted, most prominently in Quine, From a Logical Point of View, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953.

*Winner, L. (1993). "Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding it Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology," Science, Technology and Human Values 18: 362-378.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (INCLUDING S&T POLICY)

 

Books (20)

*Bijker, W., T. Hughes and T, Pinch. ([1987] 1989). The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

*Bleier. R. (1986). Feminist Approaches to Science. New York: Pergamon Press.

*Bloor, D. (1976). Knowledge and Social Imagery. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

*Foucault, M. (1979). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Random House.

*Haraway, D. (1991). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge.

*Harding, S., ed. (1993). The Racial Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Part II, "Science Constructs 'Race'", and Part V, "Objectivity, Method, and Nature: Value Neutral?", pp. 81-193 and 337-427.

*Harvey, D. (1989). The Condition of Postmodernity: An Inquiry into the Origins of Social Change. Oxford: Blackwell. Skip part 3.

Hopkins, P., ed. (1998). Sex/Machine : Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Horkheimer, M. (1974). Critique of Instrumental Reason. New York: Seabury Press.

*Keller, E. F. (1985). Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

*Knorr-Cetina, K. and M. Mulkay, eds. (1983). Science Observed: Perspectives in the Social Studies of Science. London: Sage Publications.

*Latour, B. (1987). Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

*Latour, B. and S. Woolgar. ([1979] 1986). Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Marcuse, H. (1991[1964]). One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Boston: Beacon Press.

*Martin, E. (1987). The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press.

*Merton, R. "Science and the Social Order" (1938) and "A Note on Science and Democracy" (1942) (revised titles: "Science and Democratic Social Structure" and "The Normative Structure of Science"), "Priorities in Scientific Discovery" (1957), "Singletons and Multiples in Science" (1961), "The Ambivalence in Scientists" (1963), "The Matthew Effect in Science" (1968), "Institutionalized Patterns of Evaluation in Science" (1971), all in The Sociology of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

*Nelkin, D., ed. (1992). Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions, 3rd ed. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

*Pickering, A. (1995). The Mangle of Practice,. Time, Agency. and Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

*Traweek, S. (1988). Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

*Winner, L. (1977). The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Articles and Chapters:

Fuhrman, E. and K. Oehler. (1986). "Discourse Analysis and Reflexivity," Social Studies of Science 16:293-307.

*Gieryn, T. (1983). "Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists," American Sociological Review 48:781-795,

Latour, B. (2000). "When Things Strike Back: A Possible Contribution of 'Science Studies' to the Social Sciences," The British Journal of Sociology, 51 (1),107-23.

Mitroff, I. (1974). "Norms and Counter-norms in a Select Group of the Apollo Moon Scientists: A Case Study in the Ambivalence of Scientists," American Sociological Review 48: 781-795.

Mulkay, M. (1976). "Norms and Ideology in Science," Social Science Information 15:637-656.

*Restivo, S. (1988). "Modern Science as a Social Problem," Social Problems 35(3): 206-225.

*Zuckerman, H. (1988). "The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge," in Neil Smelser, ed., The Handbook of Sociology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

 

Environmental Justice/ Activism, Identity, and the Practice of Science (Area 4)

 

Books (22):

Adam, B. (1998). Timescapes of Modernity: the Environment and Invisible Social Hazards. London: Routledge.

Beck, U. (1992). Risk Society : Towards a New Modernity Mark Ritter, trans. (London: Sage Publications,).

Beck, U. (1997). The Reinvention of Politics: Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order. M. Ritter (Trans.) Cambridge: Polity Press.

Butler, Judith (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.

Escobar, Arturo (1994). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press,

Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Gottlieb, R. (1993). Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Gouldner, A. (1976). The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology. New York: The Seabury Press.

Harvey, D. (1996). Justice, Nature, & the Geography of Difference. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd.

Hofrichter, R., ed. (2000). Reclaiming the Environmental Debate : The Politics of Health in a Toxic Culture. Boston: MIT Press.

Hurley, A. (1995). Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Irwin, A. and B. Wynne, ed. (1996). Misunderstanding Science?: The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Latour, B. (1999). Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (selections)

Levine, A. (1982). Love Canal: Science, Politics and People Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

Luke, T. (1997). Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Luke, T. (1999). Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: Departing from Marx. Urbana, Il.: University of Illinois Press.

McKibben, B. (1990). The End of Nature. New York: Anchor Books.

Mellor, M. (1997). Feminism & Ecology. New York: New York University Press.

Pepper, D. (1996). Modern Environmentalism : an Introduction. London: Routledge.

Schlosberg, D. (1999). Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism : the Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Szasz, A. (1994). Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

White, D. (1998). Postmodern Ecology: Communication, Evolution, and Play. Albany: State University of New York Press.

 

articles:

Alcoff, L. (1991). "The Problem of Speaking for Others," Cultural Critique 20: 5-32.

Beck, U. (2000). "The Cosmopolitan Perspective: Sociology of the Second Age of Modernity," The British Journal of Sociology, 51 (1), 79-105.

Knorr-Cetina, K. (1992). "The Couch, the Cathedral, and the Laboratory: On the Relationship between Experiment and Laboratory in Science," in A. Pickering (Ed.) Science as Practice and Culture (pp. 113-38). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Melucci, A. (1995). "The Process of Collective Identity," in H. Johnston and B. Klandermans, eds. Social Movements and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 41-63.

Mills,. P. (1991). "Feminism and Ecology: On the Domination of Nature," Hypatia 6: 162-78.

Wynne, B. (1994). "Scientific Knowledge and the Global Environment," in M. Redclift and T. Benton, eds. Social Theory and the Global Environment. London: Routledge, 169-89.