Science and Society
Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare
Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.
The Beauty of Detours
Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology.
Fire and Snow
A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.
Between Stony Brook Harbor Tides
Examines the ecological and historical significance of the harbor and what it can bring to future residents.
From Modernity to Cosmodernity
Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.
Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls
Explores the distinctions between science and pseudoscience.
The Passionate Empiricist
Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.
How the Gene Got Its Groove
Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.
Humanity and the Cosmos
Essays on the interaction between science and spiritual values which characterize much of modern life.
The End of Modern Medicine
Proposes a radically reconfigured medical model centered on mind-body interaction.
Degrees of Compromise
Analyzes value changes arising from new university-industry research relationships.
Formal Theory in Sociology
A group of renowned sociological theorists analyze why the attempts to make sociological theory formal in the 1960s and early 1970s failed. This becomes not only an unusual and interesting analysis in ...
Controversial Science
This book represents emerging alternative perspectives to the "constructivist" orthodoxy that currently dominates the field of science and technology studies. Various contributions from distinguished ...
Math Worlds
An international group of distinguished scholars brings a variety of resources to bear on the major issues in the study and teaching of mathematics, and on the problem of understanding mathematics as ...
Thinking Constructively About Science, Technology, and Society Education
This book defines STS—science, technology, and society—education and discusses current thinking about its conceptual evolution. It synthesizes a broad range of research and thought in the history ...
Technology and Social Complexity
Technology and Social Complexity explores the continuities between today's incredibly powerful new technology and the simpler technologies of the past. It shows that the diverse phenomena encompassed ...
Man's Future Birthright
Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967) was a member of the early genetics group at Columbia University that developed the chromosome theory of inheritance. T. H. Morgan received the Nobel Prize in Medicine ...