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A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science
- Title
- A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science / edited by Noretta Koertge.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Koertge, Noretta.
- Description
- xi, 322 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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 -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-12112
- ISBN
- 0195117255 (alk. paper)
- 0195117263 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 97047506
- OCLC
- 38081662
- Title
- A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science / edited by Noretta Koertge.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Koertge, Noretta.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-12112