Jim Farmelant writes:
>
> << Today Alan Sokal was on NPR's "The Connection" which is hosted by
> Chris Lydon. Sociologist, Trevor Pynch (sp?) was on to critique Sokal
> and Bricmont. He is the author of _The Golem_ and he is a defender
> of science studies which he sees as rooted in the work of such
> philosophers as Thomas Kuhn, Karl Popper, and W.V. Quine.
> >>
Pinch is a big macher in science and tech studies. He is of the social
constructionist school of STS--he and Wiebe Bijker edited a volume
entitled *The Social Construction of Technological Systems* (MIT 1987). I
haven't read *The Golem*, but I don't think he does cultural studies of
technology. He does, if I remember correctly, detailed empirical studies
of what goes on in laboratories.
frances