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Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (STS) is an emerging field of Philosophy which tries to investigate the role of science and technology in society. It does so by examining the technological culture we live in, by investigating individual technologies or by studying the history of science, technology and society. Science and technology have influenced society and the the possibilities and phenomenal experiences of individuals greatly ever since the Industrial Revolution. This is what has created the technological culture we live in. Investigations such as those undertaken by the Frenchman Bruno Latour, try to achieve a better understanding of how technologies are developed (the construction of a black box), which may be useful in for instance technology assessment. This branch of the philosophy of technology is closely related to sociology. Many useful resources about these and closely related topics can be found in the category Science / Science_in_Society.

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Society for Philosophy and Technology SPT is a society for the study of philosophical issues in science and technology. www.spt.org

Technorealism Questioning the value of developments in communications and computing, available in four languages. www.technorealism.org

Science and Human Values A text by Professor Fred L. Wilson from the Rochester Institute of Technology. www.rit.edu/~flwstv/contents.html

Technological Determinism and Social Choice The aim of this page is to explore in greater depth the controversy as to how far technology does, or does not, condition social change. www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/teaching/cis/cis4.html

Why Not Science Critics? A paper discussing whether "science critics" are needed. By Don Ihde. www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/papers/Scicrit.htm

The Actor Network Theory Resource A thematically organised and annotated list of references on Actor Network Theory (ANT). www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/css/antres/antres.htm

Actor Network Theory (ANT) Yahoo Group Yahoo group focusing on Actor Network Theory. groups.yahoo.com/group/actor-network-theory

ScienceWars homepage Page containing links to information about the intellectual debate called the "ScienceWars". members.tripod.com/ScienceWars

Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair" Read about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation. www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal

Technological Determinism Introduction to technological determinism written by Daniel Chandler. www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tecdet.html

Science and Technology Studies Links Links of interest for STS researchers. apollo.iwt.uni-bielefeld.de/mw/sts

Essays on the Philosophy of Technology A list of essays concerning the philosophy of technology. commhum.mccneb.edu/philos/techessay.htm

Cyborg Citizen Home page of the cyborg citizen book by Chris Hables Gray. Contains links to other sites and commentary on the book. www.routledge-ny.com/cyborgcitizen

STS Blogs A short list of bloggers in the STS field. www.gustavholmberg.com/stsblogs

Lecture Notes: Science, Technology and Society Notes for the AK NATS 1760.06 "Science, Technology and Society" course offered in the Fall/Winter Semester of 2001/2002 by the Atkinson College of York University, Toronto, Canada and taught by John Dwyer. opencopy.org/content/category/3/67/28