卸下「愛丁堡學派」這張招牌吧！：巴恩思訪談錄

Dropping the Brand of Edinburgh School: An Interview with Barry Barnes

10.6464/TJSSTM.201010.0339

朱容萱(Rong-Xuan Chu)；黃之棟(Chih-Tung Huang)

科技醫療與社會

11期（2010 / 10 / 01）

339 - 374

繁體中文

巴恩思教授是國際知名的社會學家，也是科技與社會領域中愛丁堡學派的創始者之一。巴氏一生穿梭在科學社會學家與社會理論家這兩個角色中，並在這兩個領域裡都取得了重大的成就。這篇訪談的範圍觸及到了巴恩思思想的核心關懷。巴氏先從他的自然主義立場談起，挑戰了人們對愛丁堡學派相對主義的批評。接著他向我們闡釋為什麼自我指涉的知識、權力還有承載這些自我指涉系統的集體行動者，是我們理解現代社會的關鍵。談完理論的問題之後，巴恩思教授提及他最近從事的一系列基因研究，告訴我們為什麼基因也像權力一樣，看似存在卻又飄渺。最後，巴恩思教授給了東亞的科技與社會社群一些建言。他要我們放膽結合所有可能的資源，盡量運用各種理論到我們自己的情境裡。

Professor Barry Barnes is a major contributor to the Strong Programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK). He is well known for his ground-breaking study on collective action, self-referring knowledge, and systems of power. His enormous influence helps transform the discipline of Science, Technology and Society (STS). This interview started from his naturalistic commitment, insisting that science should be studied in the same way as any other human activities. We then move onto the basic relation between knowledge and society. According to him, problems to do with knowledge and those to do with power are in fact two sides of one coin. His work on agency, collective action, power or even finitism can all be understood as analyzing different forms of the same awareness, rather than as a change of subject. At the end of this interview, we asked Professor Barnes's suggestions toward the budding East-Asian STS research. He encouraged scholars in East-Asia to combine the Western resources with their own ones, and advised them not to simply follow a ”Programme” as it constrains their vision.

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