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Research in Sts Studies

Humanities Division in the Library at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078

Paul Durbin

Center for Science and Culture, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

Rachelle Hollander

Ethics and Values in Science and Technology Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC 20550

The challenge is there: the social problems of technology--problems related to the environment, the energy crisis, traffic problems, social engineering--so discipline-spanning in their interactions with other realms of life ... are, at bottom, problems of social and political values .... They cannot be solved, in any realistic and adequate way, without the collaboration of philosopher-generalists, broad humanists, and social science generalists working with engineers and technological experts .... The more multidisciplinary technological problems become, the more important such programs [in science, technology, and society] will turn out to be. Hans Lenk, Research in Philosophy & Technology 7 (1984): 50, 52.

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