Further Readings & Links

General Introductions to STS, Readers & Handbooks

  • Felt, Ulrike, Rayvon Fouché, Clark A. Miller, and Laurel Smith-Doerr, eds. 2017. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies.
  • Jasanoff, Sheila, Gerald E. Markle, James C. Petersen, and Trevor Pinch, eds. 2007. Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
  • Bauer, Susanne, Torsten Heinemann, and Thomas Lemke. 2017. Science and technology studies: klassische Positionen und aktuelle Perspektiven.
  • Biagioli, Mario, ed. 1999. The Science Studies Reader. New York: Routledge.
  • Sismondo, Sergio. 2010. An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Vol. 33. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

The Strong Program & Criticisms Thereof

  • Barnes, Barry, David Bloor, and John Henry. 1996. Scientific Knowledge : A Sociological Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bloor, David. 1976. Knowledge and Social Imagery. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Sokal, Alan, and Jean Bricmont. 1998. Fashionable Nonsense. Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science. New York: Picador.
  • Mermin, N David. 1998. “The Science of Science: A Physicist Reads Barnes, Bloor and Henry.” Social Studies of Science 28 (4): 603–23.

Actor-Network Theory

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History & Philosophy of Technology

  • Oreskes, Naomi, and John Krige. 2014. Science and Technology in the Global Cold War. Edited by Naomi Oreskes and John Krige.
  • Arthur, W Brian. 2009. The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves. New York: Free Press.
  • Schatzberg, Eric. 2018. Technology Critical History of a Concept.
  • Wilson, George. 1855. What Is Technology? An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the University of Edinburgh, on November 7, 1855. Sutherland and Knox.
  • Scharff, Robert C, and Val Dusek. 2013. Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition: An Anthology.
  • Dusek, Val. 2006. Philosophy of Technology: An Introducton. Malden MA: Blackwell.
  • de Vries, Marc J. 2005. Teaching about Technology: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology for Non-Philosophers. Dordrecht: Springer.

Philosophy of Science

  • Chalmers, Alan F. 1999. What Is This Thing Called Science? 3rd ed. St. Lucia: University of Queensland.
  • Bird, Alexander, and James Ladyman, eds. 2011. Arguing about Science. London: Routledge.
  • Curd, Martin, Jan A Cover, and Chris Pincock, eds. 2013. Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Ladyman, James. 2002. Understanding Philosophy of Science. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.
  • Okasha, Samir. 2002. Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

History of Science

  • Bowler, P. J., & Morus, I. R. 2005. Making modern science: A historical survey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Collins, H. M., & Pinch, T. 1998. The golem: What everyone should know about science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.