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Technoscience

Index Technoscience

In common usage, technoscience refers to the entire long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the relatively recent scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. [1]

47 relations: Agriculture, Aldrin, Animal husbandry, Bernard Stiegler, Biofact (philosophy), Biotechnology, Bruno Latour, Chemist, Chlorofluorocarbon, Computer science, Congress, Critical thinking, DDT, Dieldrin, Don Ihde, Donna Haraway, Elections in the United States, Ethics of technology, Feminist technoscience, Gaston Bachelard, Genetically modified organism, Gilbert Hottois, History of science, Hudson River, Human behavior, Hunting, Innovation, Karen Barad, Knowledge, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Laboratory Life, Open access, Open peer review, Ozone layer, Pesticide, Polychlorinated biphenyl, Robotics, Science and technology studies, Scientific method, Sociology, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Techne, Technocriticism, Technoetics, Technology, Theoretical physics, 4,4'-Biphenol.

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Aldrin

Aldrin is an organochlorine insecticide that was widely used until the 1990s, when it was banned in most countries.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, eggs, or other products.

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Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler (born 1 April 1952) is a French philosopher.

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Biofact (philosophy)

In philosophy, sociology and the arts, the word "biofact" is a hybrid between an artifact and living being, or between concepts of nature and technology.

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Biotechnology

Biotechnology is the broad area of science involving living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2).

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Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour (born 22 June 1947) is a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.

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Chemist

A chemist (from Greek chēm (ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchimista) is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry.

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Chlorofluorocarbon

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are fully halogenated paraffin hydrocarbons that contain only carbon (С), chlorine (Cl), and fluorine (F), produced as volatile derivative of methane, ethane, and propane.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Congress

A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different nations, constituent states, organizations (such as trade unions, and political parties), or groups.

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Critical thinking

Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment.

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DDT

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochlorine, originally developed as an insecticide, and ultimately becoming infamous for its environmental impacts.

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Dieldrin

Dieldrin is an organochloride originally produced in 1948 by J. Hyman & Co, Denver, as an insecticide.

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Don Ihde

Don Ihde (born 1934) is an American philosopher of science and technology, and a postphenomenologist.

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Donna Haraway

Donna J. Haraway (born September 6, 1944) is a Distinguished American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.

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Elections in the United States

Elections in the United States are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels.

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Ethics of technology

Ethics in technology is a sub-field of ethics addressing the ethical questions specific to the Technology Age.

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Feminist technoscience

Feminist technoscience is a transdisciplinary branch of science studies which emerged from decades of feminist critique on the way gender and other identity markers are entangled in the combined fields of science and technology.

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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard (27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher.

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Genetically modified organism

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques (i.e., a genetically engineered organism).

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Gilbert Hottois

Gilbert Hottois (born 29 March 1946, Brussels) is a Belgian professor of Philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who specialises in Bioethics.

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History of science

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.

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Human behavior

Human behavior is the responses of individuals or groups of humans to internal and external stimuli.

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Hunting

Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping animals, or pursuing or tracking them with the intent of doing so.

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Innovation

Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".

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Karen Barad

Karen Michelle Barad (born 29 April 1956) is an American feminist theorist, known particularly for her theory of agential realism.

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Knowledge

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.

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Knowledge representation and reasoning

Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR, KR², KR&R) is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can utilize to solve complex tasks such as diagnosing a medical condition or having a dialog in a natural language.

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Laboratory Life

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts is a 1979 book by sociologists of science Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar.

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Open access

Open access (OA) refers to research outputs which are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers, and possibly with the addition of a Creative Commons license to promote reuse.

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Open peer review

Open peer review is a process in which names of reviewers of papers submitted to academic journals are disclosed to the authors of the papers in question.

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Ozone layer

The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.

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Pesticide

Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests, including weeds.

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Polychlorinated biphenyl

A polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) is an organic chlorine compound with the formula C12H10−xClx.

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Robotics

Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science, and others.

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Science and technology studies

Science and technology studies, or science, technology and society studies (both abbreviated STS) is the study of how society, politics, and culture affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture.

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Scientific method

Scientific method is an empirical method of knowledge acquisition, which has characterized the development of natural science since at least the 17th century, involving careful observation, which includes rigorous skepticism about what one observes, given that cognitive assumptions about how the world works influence how one interprets a percept; formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental testing and measurement of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Sociology of scientific knowledge

The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing with "the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity." The sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) is complementary to the sociology of scientific knowledge.

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Techne

"Techne" is a term, etymologically derived from the Greek word τέχνη, that is often translated as "craftsmanship", "craft", or "art".

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Technocriticism

Technocriticism is a branch of critical theory devoted to the study of technological change.

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Technoetics

Technoetics is a neologism introduced by Roy Ascott, who coined the term from techne and noetic theory, to refer to the emergent field of technology and consciousness research.

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Technology

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".

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Theoretical physics

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena.

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4,4'-Biphenol

4,4'-Biphenol is an organic compound which is a phenolic derivative of biphenyl.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoscience

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