STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lynn Townsend White Jr., Technoscience, Nominalism

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

Document Summary

So we think there"s nothing wrong in making everything bend to. Christianity) even though we"re not all these things now, we still have a lot of that stuf f in our science today, which isn"t really good. White is seeing religion as the society part of sts. All this above jazz is different medieval styles of thought, but today we"re on bacon, who"s kind of the first early modern thinker, so while he"s maybe closest to a nominalist, he doesn"t really properly fall into any. Modern just means right now, which is kind of weird, because bacon is from late 1500s to early be thrown out and he"s just going to start fresh from right now. The signs which are taken from the origins and birthplace of the received philosophy (bacon. For him the received philosophy was not modern tehcnoscience, he"s saying we have to combine them because it still hasn"t happened yet.