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Autore |
Smith Barbara Herrnstein |
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Titolo |
Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human / / Barbara Herrnstein Smith [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2005 |
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0-7486-7167-6 |
1-280-71572-3 |
9786610715725 |
0-7486-2634-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Science and cultural theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Constructive realism |
Knowledge, Theory of |
Postmodernism |
Science - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-185) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This new book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology social studies of science and contemporary cognitive science. |
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