Testing Latour's app: a user's guide
Författare
Summary, in English
I reconstruct Bruno Latour's ideas about science and religion and compare them to Ian G. Barbour's and Mikael Stenmark's models, as well as to the discussion of technology and religion developed by John C. Caiazza and Antje Jackelen. I show how using "Latour's App" enlightens some aspects of said models which Barbour and Stenmark themselves were seemingly struggling with, and that Caiazza's and Jackelen's views can be reconciled despite their apparent opposition. The result of such tests is an overall assessment of Latour's proposal. I argue that, under the disguise of a flamboyant and original language, Latour's method is not that distant from those of the other authors analyzed here, and that his discussion might conceal some unwelcome philosophical shortcomings.
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
890-903
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Zygon
Volym
49
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences
Nyckelord
- Ian G. Barbour
- John C. Caiazza
- constructivism
- Antje Jackelen
- Bruno
- Latour
- Mikael Stenmark
- technology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0591-2385