History of technology

Teaching staff

Full Professor
Seminar course coordinator: "Evaluation in Science and Technology"
Associated Laboratory: REQUIMTE, Centro de Química Fina e Biotecnologia-UNL
Tel.: +351 212949668
Fax: + 351 212948385
E-mail: jgc@dq.fct.unl.pt

Programme

1. Methodology
1.1 Technology as the metric of progress.
1.2 Some basic concepts: Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos: “is the history of technology a cumulative process?”; invention and innovation; creativity and social construction of technology; the “Kranzberg Laws”.

2. Topics on History of Technology

From Analog to Digital: The paths of contemporary modern technology

Semester: 
Summer
Offered: 
2021

Prof. Maria Paula Diogo