This document outlines the topics and schedule for a course on Science, Technology and Society. It is divided into three main sections: 1) Historical influences of social factors on science and technology, 2) Intellectual revolutions and their impact on society, and 3) Specific contemporary issues in science and technology. Some of the individual topics that will be covered include the information age, biodiversity, nanotechnology, and gene therapy. The course will examine the relationships between science, technology, and humanity.

1. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and
SOCIETY

2. 1. Historical antecedents in which social
considerations changed the course of science
and technology (Wk 1-3)
2. Intellectual revolutions that defined society (Wk
4)
3. Science and technology and nation building (Wk
5-6)
STS AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
4. The Human Person flourishing in terms of
science and technology (Wk 7-8)
5. The Good Life (Wk 9)

3. 6. When technology and humanity cross (Wk
10)
7. Why the future does not need us (Wk 11-12)
SPECIFIC ISSUES IN STS
8. The Information Age (Wk 13)
9. Biodiversity and the healthy society (Wk 14-
15)
10. The nano world (Wk 16)
11. Gene therapy, Culminating Activity (Wk 17-
18)

4. • “If I have seen further
than others, it is by
standing on the
shoulders of giants.”
Sir Isaac Newton

5. “If I have seen further than others, it is by
standing on the shoulders of giants.”
1. What do you think Newton has seen?
2. Who do you think Newton refers to as “giants”?
3. What do you think this quote tells you about
Newton’s character?

6. • Science is as old as the world itself.
• Science as an idea
• Science as an intellectual activity
• Science as a body of knowledge
• Science as a personal and social activity

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10. • SCIENCE
• Latin “scientia” – knowledge
• Human have persistently observed and studied
the natural and physical world in order to find
meanings and seek answers to many questions.

11. • Listen to:
“Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at
Montclair Kimberley Academy” 01/29/10

12. • Is it better to know or not to know?
• Our identity is based on how we see the
world.
• Should scientists be allowed to do anything
that they can?

15. SOCRATES

16. Socrates
• Greek philosopher and the main source of
Western thought
• His "Socratic method," laid the groundwork
for Western systems of logic and philosophy.
• Socrates always emphasized the importance
of the mind over the relative unimportance of
the human body.
• he claimed to be ignorant because he had no
ideas, but wise because he recognized his own
ignorance.

17. • The more I know, the more I do not know.
• An unexamined life is not worth living.

18. PLATO

19. Plato
• was a student of Socrates and a teacher of
Aristotle
• founded the Academy in Athens
• Idealist
• His work on the use of reason to develop a
more fair and just society that is focused on
the equality of individuals established the
foundation for modern democracy.

21. • Plato claimed that knowledge gained through the
senses is no more than opinion and that, in order
to have real knowledge, we must gain it through
philosophical reasoning.
• Know yourself
• Constant struggle for humans is discovering the
reality of the world while balancing what you
know to be true, and what the physical world is
showing you to be true

22. ARISTOTLE

23. Aristotle
• Focus on systematic concept of logic
• objective was to come up with a universal
process of reasoning that would allow man to
learn every conceivable thing about reality.
• Realist
• The golden mean: Living a moral life is the
ultimate goal.

24. Medieval Philosophy
• Christian era
• For most medieval scholars, who believed that
God created the universe according to geometric
and harmonic principles, science –
particularly geometry and astronomy – was
linked directly to the divine.
• To seek these principles, therefore, would be to
seek God.

25. • Origen of Alexandria
• Origen firmly believed
that the knowledge of
the good (God) is
itself enough to
remove all taint of sin
and ignorance from
souls.

26. • St. Anselm –
defended the
existence of God thru
reason
• Such a being, he
argued, must really
exist, for the very idea
of such a being
implies its existence.

27. • St. Augustine
– Such a being, he
argued, must really
exist, for the very
idea of such a being
implies its existence.
– De Trinitate

28. Assignment:
• Intellectuals and their contributions to the
development of science
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Charles Darwin
- Sigmund Freud
• Tools discovered during the Ancient, Middle
and Modern Ages

29. Scientific Revolution
• The period of enlightenment
• The Scientific Revolution was a
series of events that marked
the emergence of modern
science during the early
modern period, when
developments in mathematics,
physics, astronomy, biology
and chemistry transformed the
views of society about nature

31. Nicolaus Copernicus
• mathematician and astronomer who
formulated a model of the universe that
placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the
center of the universe.
• Polyglot and polymath
• Dē revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the
Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)

32. Charles Darwin
• English naturalist, geologist and biologist,[6]
best known for his contributions to the
science of evolution
• All species of organisms arise and develop
through the natural selection of small,
inherited variations that increase the
individual's ability to compete, survive, and
reproduce.

33. Darwin's theory consisted of two main points:
1) diverse groups of animals evolve from
one or a few common ancestors;
2) the mechanism by which this evolution
takes place is natural selection.

34. Sigmund Freud
• Austrian neurologist and the founder of
psychoanalysis.
• Development of an observational method
• Focused on human sexuality and the evil
nature of man.

35. Filipino Scientists

36. Filipino Scientists
• Adelina Adato Barrion (September
9, 1951 – July 10, 2010) was a
Filipino entomologist and geneticist
whose extensive contribution to the
study of Philippine spiders earned
her the moniker "Asia's Spider
Woman,” although she also
contributed significantly to the
study of other species, and to the
study of genetics in general.

37. • Filipino botanist, Eduardo
Quisumbing was a noted
expert in the medicinal plants
of the Philippines. He was
author of more than 129
scientific articles. many on
orchids.
• served as the Director of the
National Museum of the
Philippines, where he rebuilt
the Herbarium.
• The plant "saccolabium
quisumbingii" is named in
honor of Eduardo
Quisumbing.

38. • Angel C. Alcala is a Filipino biologist who was
named a National Scientist of the Philippines
in 2014. He had created the artificial coral
reefs that help a lot to the Philippines' aquatic
ecosystem.

39. • Ramon Cabanos Barba is a
Filipino inventor and
horticulturist best known
for inventing a way to
induce more flowers in
mango trees using ethrel
and potassium nitrate.
Barba was proclaimed a
National Scientist of the
Philippines in June 2014.
• National Scientist RAMON
C. BARBA
on The Discovery of the
Mango Flower Induction
Technology and the
Research Process.

41. • Dr. Lilian F. Patena
develops tissue culture
for garlic.

42. • Fe Villanueva del Mundo, was a Filipino
pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a
student of the Harvard Medical School, she
founded the first pediatric hospital in the
Philippines.
– credited with studies that lead to the invention of an
improved incubator and a jaundice-relieving device