Science Transformed?: Debating Claims of an Epochal Break

CONTRIBUTORS

• 207 Mieke Boon is an associate professor at the philosophy department of the University of Twente. She holds MSc and PhD degrees in the engineering sciences. After conducting laboratory research for fifteen years in biotechnology for the mining industry and environmental technologies, she moved to her current research topic of developing a philosophy of science for the engineering sciences . For this she was awarded the Vidi grant of the National Dutch Science foundation. Boon has published on these themes in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, European Journal of the Philosophy of Science, Metascience, Perspectives on Science, and Techné, as well as in several edited books. James Robert Brown is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. His interests include a wide range of topics in the philosophy of science and mathematics: thought experiments, foundational issues in mathematics and physics, visual reasoning, and issues involving science and society, such as the role of commercialization in medical research. His books include The Rational and the Social; The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Science; Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality; Philosophy of Mathematics : An Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures; Who Rules in Science: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars; and Platonism, Naturalism and Mathematical Knowledge. Martin Carrier is a professor of philosophy at Bielefeld University and part of the Institute of Science and Technology Studies. His chief area of work is the philosophy of science—in particular, historical changes in science and scienti fic method, theory-ladenness and empirical testability, intertheoretic relations and reductionism, and methodological issues of application-oriented research. CONTRIBUTORS 208 • contributors Carrier was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Association for 2008. His recent books include Wissenschaftstheorie: Zur Einführung (Introduction to the Philosophy of Science) and Raum-Zeit (Space-time). His recent edited volumes include The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited (with Don Howard and Janet Kourany) and Science in the Context of Application: Methodological Change, Conceptual Transformation, Cultural Reorientation (with Alfred Nordmann). Valerie L. Hanson is an associate professor of writing at Philadelphia University. She received her PhD from Pennsylvania State University in English, rhetoric, and composition; her dissertation focused on the rhetorics of nanotechnology. She writes about ethics and technology as well as the intersections of science, rhetoric, and technology, such as the impact of visualization technologies on the formation of scientific fields like nanotechnology. Recent articles have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Science as Culture and Science Communication; additional forthcoming work includes a book about the rhetorics of digital images in nanotechnology. Andrew Jamison is a professor of technology, environment, and society at the Department of Development and Planning at Aalborg University. He has a BA in history and science from Harvard University and a PhD in theory of science from Gothenburg University. Jamison has carried out research on social movements, science and technology policy, and environmental politics and is the author, most recently, of The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation; Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Science and Technology (with Mikael Hård); and A Hybrid Imagination: Science and Technology in Cultural Perspective (with Steen Hyldgaard Christensen and Lars Botin). Ann Johnson is an associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina . She is the author of Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge and is currently working on a book with Johannes Lenhard about mathematization, computational models and simulations, and the role of information technologies in the changing epistemologies and cultures of science and engineering in the dawn of the twenty-first century. Tarja Knuuttila is a senior research associate in philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She holds degrees in economics and business administration (MSc contributors • 209 from the Helsinki School of Economics) and in philosophy (MA and PhD from the University of Helsinki). The main themes of her work have been modeling and scientific representation, the methodology of economics, as well as the commodification of science. Knuuttila has published on these themes in Biology and Philosophy; Erkenntnis; Forum: Qualitative Social Research; Philosophy of Science; Semiotica; Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; Science Studies; Science, Technology, and Human Values; and Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook; as well as in numerous edited books. Angela Krewani is a professor of media studies at Marburg University. She...