NATS 1775 Lecture 1: summary one
5 Dec 2016
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The view that technology is applied science has been challenged from a variety of sides. Theorists of technology argue that there are technological knowledge traditions that are independent of scientific knowledge traditions and to understand the artifacts, one needs to understand those knowledge traditions. Others argued that science and technology are not well defined and thus, a relationship cannot be determined between them. Edwin layton argues that the reason why the model of technology as applied science is so pervasive is that technological knowledge is downplayed. Rachel laudan has a problem solving model that assumes that the development of technologies is a research process which is driven by intersecting problems. For a group of people to have its own tradition of knowledge suggests that that knowledge will be tied to the group"s social networks and material circumstances.
