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STS, platform capitalism and the conundrum of expertise

What a difference a few decades can make!

Written by:

Philip Mirowski
Domains: Modern Philosophy, Political Economy & Engineering

They might be loath to admit it, but many Science and Technology Studies [STS] scholars today long for the halcyon days of the so-called “Science Wars” of the 1990s. Back then, those scholars were relatively united in their defenses against a loose coalition of natural scientists and their fellow-travelers

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Philip Mirowski
Philip Mirowski is Koch Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Univ. of Notre Dame, and author of many books, including Science-Mart (2011) and with Eddie Nik Khah, The Knowledge we have Lost in Information (2017).
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