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Science, Scientists, and Prehistories of SSK in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Literature
Configurations Pub Date : 2023-06-08
Graham Matthews

This article investigates the diverse ways in which midtwentieth-century British writers responded to the proliferation of science and scientists in the traditionally non-scholarly spheres of industry, politics, and society and, in doing so, establishes a series of prehistories to the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). Authors such as Fred Hoyle, C. P. Snow, D. F. Jones, Michael Moorcock, Daphne du Maurier, and John Wyndham interrogated the notion that science is an impersonal, detached body of knowledge and provided counternarratives to teleological narratives of scientific progress. These novelists sought to: (i) present scientists as diligent and productive in opposition to the platitudes of politicians and dour bureaucrats; (ii) debunk the stereotype that scientists are unemotional and irresponsible in contrast to the instrumental reason of fictional AI; and (iii) acknowledge that science is inseparable from the social context by foregrounding the complexities involved in the dissemination of new discoveries. The article analyses the ways these writers anticipate key concepts in SSK, including the construction of scientific fact, the scientific attitude and limits of the human, and the dissemination, reception, and epistemic authority of science. In doing so, they provide important prehistories to SSK and contribute much-needed sociocultural context to ongoing debates concerning the value of science in society.



中文翻译:

二十世纪中叶英国文学中 SSK 的科学、科学家和史前史

本文调查了 20 世纪中叶英国作家对工业、政治和社会等传统非学术领域中科学和科学家激增的不同方式,并在此过程中建立了一系列关于社会学的史前史。科学知识(SSK)。Fred Hoyle、CP Snow、DF Jones、Michael Moorcock、Daphne du Maurier 和 John Wyndham 等作者质疑科学是一种非个人的、独立的知识体系这一概念,并为科学进步的目的论叙述提供了反证。这些小说家试图:(i) 将科学家描述为勤奋和多产的人,以反对政治家和阴郁官僚的陈词滥调;(ii) 揭穿科学家冷漠和不负责任的刻板印象,与虚构人工智能的工具理性形成鲜明对比;(iii) 通过强调传播新发现所涉及的复杂性,承认科学与社会背景密不可分。文章分析了这些作者在 SSK 中预测关键概念的方式,包括科学事实的建构、人类的科学态度和局限,以及科学的传播、接受和认知权威。通过这样做,他们为 SSK 提供了重要的史前史,并为正在进行的关于科学在社会中的价值的辩论贡献了急需的社会文化背景。(iii) 通过强调传播新发现所涉及的复杂性,承认科学与社会背景密不可分。文章分析了这些作者在 SSK 中预测关键概念的方式,包括科学事实的建构、人类的科学态度和局限,以及科学的传播、接受和认知权威。通过这样做,他们为 SSK 提供了重要的史前史,并为正在进行的关于科学在社会中的价值的辩论贡献了急需的社会文化背景。(iii) 通过强调传播新发现所涉及的复杂性,承认科学与社会背景密不可分。文章分析了这些作者在 SSK 中预测关键概念的方式,包括科学事实的建构、人类的科学态度和局限,以及科学的传播、接受和认知权威。通过这样做,他们为 SSK 提供了重要的史前史,并为正在进行的关于科学在社会中的价值的辩论贡献了急需的社会文化背景。

更新日期:2023-06-08
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