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    Minority Report: Dissent and Diversity in Science.William Lynch - 2020 - New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    This book analyzes the support that should be given to minority views, reconsidering classic debates in Science and Technology Studies and examining numerous case studies.
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    Engineering Practice and Engineering Ethics.Ronald Kline & William T. Lynch - 2000 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 25 (2):195-225.
    Diane Vaughan’s analysis of the causes of the Challenger accident suggests ways to apply science and technology studies to the teaching of engineering ethics. By sensitizing future engineers to the ongoing construction of risk during mundane engineering practice, we can better prepare them to address issues of public health, safety, and welfare before they require heroic intervention. Understanding the importance of precedents, incremental change, and fallible engineering judgment in engineering design may help them anticipate potential threats to public safety arising (...)
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    Behind the Screens: Post-truth, Populism, and the Circulation of Elites.William T. Lynch - 2021 - Analyse & Kritik 43 (2):367-393.
    The alleged emergence of a ‘post-truth’ regime links the rise of new forms of social media and the reemergence of political populism. Post-truth has theoretical roots in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies, with sociologists of science arguing that both true and false claims should be explained by the same kinds of social causes. Most STS theorists have sought to deflect blame for post-truth, while at the same time enacting a normative turn, looking to deconstruct truth claims and (...)
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    Does Post-truth Expand or Restrict Political Choice? Politics, Planning, and Expertise in a Post-truth Environment.William T. Lynch - 2022 - Analyse & Kritik 44 (1):137-159.
    Steve Fuller has replied to my critique of his endorsement of a post-truth epistemology. I trace the divergence in our approach to social epistemology by examining our distinct responses to the principle of symmetry in the sociology of scientific knowledge. Fuller has extended the concept of symmetry and challenged the field to embrace a post-truth condition that flattens the difference between experts and the public. By contrast, I have criticized the concept of symmetry for policing the field to rule ideology (...)
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  5. Social Epistemology Transformed: Steve Fuller’s Account of Knowledge as a Divine Spark for Human Domination.William T. Lynch - 2016 - Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 3 (2): 191-205.
    In his new book, Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History, Steve Fuller returns to core themes of his program of social epistemology that he first outlined in his 1988 book, Social Epistemology. He develops a new, unorthodox theology and philosophy building upon his testimony in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District in defense of intelligent design, leading to a call for maximal human experimentation. Beginning from the theological premise rooted in the Abrahamic religious tradition that we are created in the (...)
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    Imre Lakatos and the Inexhaustible Atom.William T. Lynch - 2018 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 55 (3):25-34.
    Recent work on Imre Lakatos’s missing Hungarian dissertation on the historical sociology of science sheds new light on his mature philosophy of science. Remembered primarily as an “internalist” defender of the autonomy of science, and a Cold Warrior in poli­tics, commentators have mistaken his contribution as primarily a rearguard action against the followers of Thomas Kuhn and the “externalists” influenced by Boris Hessen. It comes as a surprise, then, to find that he developed and retained a fully general soci­ology of (...)
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    Cultural Evolution and Social Epistemology: A Darwinian Alternative to Steve Fuller’s Theodicy of Science.William T. Lynch - 2017 - Social Epistemology 31 (2):224-234.
    Key to Steve Fuller’s recent defense of intelligent design is the claim that it alone can explain why science is even possible. By contrast, Fuller argues that Darwinian evolutionary theory posits a purposeless universe leaving humans with no motivation to study science and no basis for modifying an underlying reality. I argue that this view represents a retreat from insights about knowledge within Fuller’s own program of social epistemology. I argue for a Darwinian picture of science as a product of (...)
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    Second-Guessing Scientists and Engineers: Post Hoc Criticism and the Reform of Practice in Green Chemistry and Engineering.William T. Lynch - 2015 - Science and Engineering Ethics 21 (5):1217-1240.
    The article examines and extends work bringing together engineering ethics and Science and Technology Studies, which had built upon Diane Vaughan’s analysis of the Challenger shuttle accident as a test case. Reconsidering the use of her term “normalization of deviance,” the article argues for a middle path between moralizing against and excusing away engineering practices contributing to engineering disaster. To explore an illustrative pedagogical case and to suggest avenues for constructive research developing this middle path, it examines the emergence of (...)
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    Recovering and Expanding the Normative: Marx and the New Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.Ellsworth R. Fuhrman & William T. Lynch - 1991 - Science, Technology and Human Values 16 (2):233-248.
    It was customary in traditional approaches to the sociology of knowledge to bracket either questions about the possibility of the social determination of natural scientific ideas or questions about the ability of the sociology of knowledge to evaluate other types of knowledge claims. The current strong program in the sociology of knowledge, a typical representative of the new approach to the sociology of science, wants to study the production of natural scientific knowledge scientifically and simultaneously bracket normative considerations. We criticize (...)
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    Controversial Science: From Content to Contention.Thomas Brante, Steve Fuller, PhD Professor of Sociology Steve Fuller & William Lynch - 1993 - SUNY Press.
    This book represents emerging alternative perspectives to the "constructivist" orthodoxy that currently dominates the field of science and technology studies. Various contributions from distinguished Americans and Europeans in the field, provide arguments and evidence that it is not enough simply to say that science is "socially situated." Controversial Science focuses on important political, ethical, and broadly normative considerations that have yet to be given their due, but which point to a more realistic and critical perspective on science policy.
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    Between Kin Selection and Cultural Relativism: Cultural Evolution and the Origin of Inequality.William T. Lynch - 2019 - Perspectives on Science 27 (2):278-315.
    Cultural anthropologists and sociobiologists developed initially incommensurable approaches to explaining cooperation and altruism in human societies. When understood as complex cultural adaptations, however, scientific research programs are subject to piecemeal changes in the research programs driving scientific research. The emergence of new research programs in cultural evolution and group selection resulted. This transformation is examined with a focus on explanations for the origin and maintenance of human inequality. The transmission, modification, and selection of the complex cultural packages underlying egalitarianism and (...)
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    The ghost of Wittgenstein: Forms of life, scientific method, and cultural critique.William T. Lynch - 2005 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (2):139-174.
    In developing an "internal" sociology of science, the sociology of scientific knowledge drew on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy to reinterpret traditional epistemological topics in sociological terms. By construing scientific reasoning as rule following within a collective, sociologists David Bloor and Harry Collins effectively blocked outside criticism of a scientific field, whether scientific, philosophical, or political. Ethnomethodologist Michael Lynch developed an alternative, Wittgensteinian reading that similarly blocked philosophical or political critique, while also disallowing analytical appeals to historical or institutional contexts. I criticize (...)
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    (1 other version)Images of hope.William F. Lynch - 1965 - Baltimore,: Helicon.
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    What does the double hermeneutic explain/justify?William Lynch - 1993 - Social Epistemology 7 (2):193 – 204.
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    Dissent and Diversity in Science and Technology Studies: Reply to Fuller, Kasavin and Shipovalova, and Turner.William T. Lynch - 2022 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 52 (5):306-321.
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page 306-321, September 2022.
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  16. Theology and the Imagination.William F. Lynch - 1954 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 29 (1):61-86.
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    Ethnomethodology as Technocratic Ideology: Policing Epistemic Boundaries.Ellsworth Fuhrman & William T. Lynch - 1992 - Science, Technology and Human Values 17 (2):234-236.
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    An approach to the metaphysics of Plato through the Parmenides.William F. Lynch - 1959 - [Washington]: Georgetown University Press.
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    Arguments for a non‐Whiggish hindsight: Counterfactuals and the sociology of knowledge.William Lynch - 1989 - Social Epistemology 3 (4):361 – 365.
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    Adventure in Order.William F. Lynch - 1951 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 26 (1):33-49.
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    After the Gold Rush: Cleaning Up after Steve Fuller’s Theosis.William T. Lynch - 2018 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 48 (5):505-523.
    Remedios and Dusek have provided a useful contextualization of Steve Fuller’s recent work in social epistemology. While they have provided some good criticisms of some of Fuller’s new ideas, they fail to provide a systematic critique of Fuller’s retreat from a naturalistic and materialist social epistemology for one embracing transhumanism, intelligent design, and the proactionary imperative. An alternative approach is developed, drawing on Fuller’s early work and incorporating recent work on our biological and cultural evolution as a species.
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    Blanshardian Democracy.William F. Lynch - 1951 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 26 (4):581-585.
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    Culture and Belief.William F. Lynch - 1950 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 25 (3):441-463.
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    Confusion in Our Theater.William F. Lynch - 1951 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 26 (3):342-360.
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    Cavendish. Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach.William T. Lynch - 1998 - Isis 89 (3):548-549.
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    Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide. Galileo Galilei, Maurice A. Finocchiaro.William T. Lynch - 1999 - Isis 90 (3):595-596.
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    History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas HobbesRobert P. Kraynak.William T. Lynch - 1992 - Isis 83 (1):130-131.
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    Plato and the Absolute State.William F. Lynch - 1938 - Modern Schoolman 16 (1):14-17.
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    Politics in Hobbes' Mechanics: The Social as Enabling.William T. Lynch - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (1991):295-320.
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    Reply to Harbers and de vries.William Lynch - 1993 - Social Epistemology 7 (2):209 – 211.
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    Saint Ignatius and the “New Theological Age”.William F. Lynch - 1956 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 31 (2):187-215.
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    Theology and the Imagination III: The Problem of Comedy.William F. Lynch - 1955 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 30 (1):18-36.
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    Toward a Theology of the Secular.William F. Lynch - 1966 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 41 (3):349-365.
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    The Challenge to Consensus.William T. Lynch - 2018 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 55 (3):57-61.
    Responding to comments on “Imre Lakatos and the Inexhaustible Atom: The Hidden Marxist Roots of History and Philosophy of Science,” an argument is made for reviving a missed opportunity for integrating sociological and normative approaches to science. Lakatos’ mature philosophy of science, though jettisoning a political commitment to Marxism, retains a dialectical approach developed during his Hungarian career. Through his carefully crafted debate with Feyerabend, Lakatos continued to promote a dialectical approach that offers a useful model for integrating the history (...)
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    The Domestication of Animals and the Roots of the Anthropocene: Lee Ann Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut, How To Tame a Fox : Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution , viii + 216 pp., 16 color illus., $26.00 Cloth, ISBN: 9780226444185 Richard C. Francis, Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World , xii + 484 pp., 74 b&w illus., $17.95 Paperback, ISBN: 9780393353037 Pat Shipman, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction , xvi + 266 pp., 23 b&w illus., $29.95 Cloth, ISBN: 9780674736764, $18.95 Paperback, ISBN: 9780674975415.William T. Lynch - 2019 - Journal of the History of Biology 52 (1):209-217.
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    The Imagination and the Finite.William F. Lynch - 1958 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 33 (2):205-228.
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  37. The integrating mind.William F. Lynch - 1962 - New York,: Sheed & Ward.
     
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    The Idea of a Theater.William F. Lynch - 1950 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 25 (1):143-145.
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    The Life of Faith and Imagination.William F. Lynch - 1982 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 57 (1):7-16.
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    The Partisan Review Symposium.William F. Lynch - 1950 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 25 (4):681-691.
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    The Task of Enlargement.William F. Lynch - 1976 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 51 (4):345-355.
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    The Victorian invention of dog breeds: Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton: The invention of the modern dog: breed and blood in Victorian Britain. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018, xviii+282 pp, $39.95 HB.William T. Lynch - 2020 - Metascience 29 (3):509-510.
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    Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule, and Risk--Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle. Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus, Larry J. Shuman, Norman P. Hummon, Harvey WolfeThe Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. Diane Vaughan. [REVIEW]Ronald Kline, William Lynch & Jameson Wetmore - 1998 - Isis 89 (4):761-763.
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    (1 other version)Alexander Bird. Thomas Kuhn. xii + 308 pp., figs., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. $39.50 ; $16.95. [REVIEW]William T. Lynch - 2002 - Isis 93 (4):665-666.
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    Barbara J. Shapiro, A Culture of Fact: England, 1550–1720. [REVIEW]William T. Lynch - 2003 - Metascience 12 (1):121-124.
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    Book Review: Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science, Technology, and Society Studies, edited by Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Carl Mitcham. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. vi + 167 pp. [REVIEW]William T. Lynch - 2003 - Science, Technology and Human Values 28 (2):326-331.
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    Dante’s Drama of the Mind. [REVIEW]William F. Lynch - 1953 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 28 (3):459-464.
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    Discovering Plato. [REVIEW]William F. Lynch - 1946 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 21 (1):169-170.
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    Etudes sur la Fabulation Platonicienne. [REVIEW]William F. Lynch - 1948 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 23 (2):349-351.
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    Fifteen Greek Plays. [REVIEW]William F. Lynch - 1944 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 19 (1):151-152.
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