Response to Mouloud; distinguishing natural and social sciences --- Mouloud, I like your distinction, but will challenge you a bit. The Science And Technology Studies look at how human beings and technological artifacts interact in a meaningful way. And in some cases, we cannot even know anymore if a proper human being or a 'bot' / an algorithm-based entity is interacting with us. What do you make of this? Moreover, there are many disciplinary cross-overs between the natural and the social sciences, as regards adapting to similar or same methods and epistemologies as well as integrated approaches to puzzles and problems.

Source author: Tim Flink tim.flink@hu-berlin.de