02596nam 2200457Ia 450 991079572840332120200520144314.097801980277680198027761(MiAaPQ)EBC7034674(CKB)24235113300041(MiAaPQ)EBC3052066(MiAaPQ)EBC270871(Au-PeEL)EBL3052066(CaPaEBR)ebr10142352(CaONFJC)MIL52962(OCoLC)922952690(EXLCZ)992423511330004119971203d1998 uy 0engur|||||||||||A house built on sand[electronic resource] exposing postmodernist myths about science /edited by Noretta KoertgeNew York Oxford University Press1998xi, 322 p. illIncludes bibliographical references and index.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.ScienceScienceSocial aspectsScience and stateResearchPhilosophyScience.ScienceSocial aspects.Science and state.ResearchPhilosophy.Koertge Noretta1463458MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910795728403321A house built on sand3785318UNINA