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The science wars : debating scientific knowledge and technology

Title: The science wars : debating scientific knowledge and technology / edited by Keith Parsons.
Publication: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Parsons, Keith M., 1952-

Description

325 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary issues

Uniform Title

Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)

Subject

Genre/Form

Collected Work
Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-322).

Contents

Introduction : From Gish to fish / Keith Parsons -- Part I. The constructivist challenge -- Facts and artifacts / Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar -- Conclusion to Leviathan and the air-pump / Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer -- The sociology of knowledge : exposition and critique / Robert Klee -- A critique of Shapin and Schaffer / Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt -- Part 2. Feminist on science -- Feminist standpoint epistemology and strong objectivity / Sandra Harding -- Feminist epistemology : implications for philosophy of science / Cassandra L. Pinnick -- A critique of Harding on objectivity / Ellen R. Klein -- Part 3. Science and postmodernism -- Introduction to Primate visions / Donna Haraway -- Review of Primate visions by Donna Haraway / Matt Cartmill -- Sokal's hoax and selected responses / Steven Weinberg -- Part 4. Conservative critiques of science -- The grand metaphysical story of science / Philip E. Johnson -- Critique of Philip E. Johnson/ Robert T. Pennock -- Science or beauty? / Martin Gardner.

ISBN

1573929948
9781573929943

LCCN

2002036989
9781573929943

OCLC

ocm51053455
51053455
SCSB-1299441

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library