Keith Ashman, Phillip Barringer

After the Science Wars

Science and the Study of Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The "War" in science is largely the discussion between those who believe that science is above criticism and those who do not. After the Science Wars is a collection of essays by leading philosophers and scientists, all attempting to bridge interdisciplinary gulfs in this discussion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780415212090
• ISBN-10: 041521209X
• Artikelnr.: 21457086

Autorenporträt

Keith Ashman and Phillip Baringer are both at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
1 Introduction: the "science wars"
2 What the Social Text affair does and does not prove
3 Randomized thoughts of a cultural turncoat
4 Reading and relativism
5 Pure objects and useful knowledges
6 Objectivity and ethno-feminist critiques of science
7 Measuring the Hubble constant
8 Above
beyond
and at the center of the science wars
9 Voodoo medicine in a scientific world
10 The stigma of reason
11 The reenchantment of science
12 Anticipations
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