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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457077903321

Autore

Smith Barbara Herrnstein

Titolo

Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human / / Barbara Herrnstein Smith [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2005

ISBN

0-7486-7167-6

1-280-71572-3

9786610715725

0-7486-2634-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Science and cultural theory

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Constructive realism

Knowledge, Theory of

Postmodernism

Science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Scandals of knowledge -- Pre-post-modern relativism -- Netting truth : Ludwik Fleck's constructivist genealogy -- Cutting-edge equivocation : conceptual moves and rhetorical strategies in contemporary anti-epistemology -- Disciplinary cultures and tribal warfare : the sciences and the humanities today -- Super natural science : the claims of evolutionary psychology -- Animal relatives, difficult relations.

Sommario/riassunto

This new book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology  social studies of science  and contemporary cognitive science.