Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2014, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (1): 1-6.DOI: -

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A Postmodern Thinking of ScitechFrom the Perspective of Epistemology

LI Yang   

  1. (School of Humanities, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China)
  • Received:2012-08-20 Revised:2012-08-20 Online:2014-01-25 Published:2014-12-30
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Abstract: The concept of scitech fuzzes the boundaries of science and technology, which has many defects: firstly, scitech mainly refers to technology and rarely to science, doing the negligence to the development of scientific spirit; secondly, the concept of scitech involves the potential ethical risks of technology; thirdly, it is hard to set and implement relevant policies due to the fuzziness of scitech. From the postmodern perspective of epistemology, scitech represents the development trend of contemporary scientific knowledge, which implicates many traits of postmodern science: organicness, ecology, entirety, nonlinearity, valuerelevance, locality and others. Hence, a postmodern thinking of the concept of scitech is important in establishing a real scientific spirit, creating a good academic environment, and ensuring a harmonious development of science, technology and society.

Key words: scitech, science and technology, postmodern science, epistemology

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