Advancements in computing, instrumentation, robotics, digital imaging, and simulation modelling have changed science into a technology driven institution. Government, industry, and society increasingly exert their influence over science, raising questions of values and objectivity. This presents an in-depth examination of these issues from philosophical, historical, social, and cultural perspectives. It offers arguments both for and against the epochal break thesis.
Alfred Nordmann (Editor)
Alfred Nordmann is professor of philosophy at Darmstadt Technical University and Visiting Centenary Professor at the University of South Carolina. He is author of Wittgenstein's Tractatus: An Introduction, and coeditor of Discovering the Nanoscale, The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth Century Science, and Science in the Context of Application.