Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction
2 Philosophy of Science I: From Logical Positivism to Antipositivism
3 Sociology of Scientific Knowledge I: The Strong Programme
4 Philosophy of Science II: From Realism to Constructivism and Halfway Back
5 Sociology of Scientific Knowledge II: Networks, Agency, Practice, Assemblage
6 Sociology of Scientific Knowledge III: Institutions and Culture
7 Feminism and Science Short paper due
8 Cyborgs Prospectus due
9 Race and Science
10 Biosociality
11 Medicine
12 Rhetoric of Technology: Gramophone, Telephone, Tape, Sampling
13 Technoscientific Makings of Postcolonial Place and Space
14 Class Conference Research paper due