| Description |
xi, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Scrutinizing science studies / Noretta Koertge -- What the social text affair does and does not prove / Alan D. Sokal -- What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us / Paul A. Boghossian -- Plea for science studies / Philip Kitcher -- Bashful eggs, macho sperm, and Tonypandy / Paul R. Gross -- Engineer dissects two case studies : Hayles on fluid mechanics, and MacKenzie on statistics / Philip A. Sullivan -- Evidence-free forensics and enemies of objectivity / Paul R. Gross -- Is Darwinism sexist? (and if it is, so what?) / Michael Ruse -- When experiments fail : is "cold fusion" science as normal? / William J. McKinney -- Avoiding the experimenters' regress / Allan Franklin -- Latour's relativity / John Huth -- In defense of Bacon / Alan Soble -- Alchemy, domination, and gender / William R. Newman -- What's wrong with the strong programme's case study of the "Hobbes-Boyle" dispute / Cassandra L. Pinnick -- Postmodernisms and the problem of scientific literacy / Noretta Koertge -- End of science, the central dogma of science studies, Monsieur Jordain, and Uncle Vanya / Norman Levitt -- Epistemic charity of the social constructivist critics of science and why the third world should refuse the offer / Meera Nanda. |
| Subject |
Science.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Science and state.
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Research -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Koertge, Noretta.
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| ISBN |
0195117255 (alk. paper) |
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9780195117257 (alk. paper) |
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0195117263 (pbk.) |
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9780195117264 (pbk.) |
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