A house built on sand [[electronic resource] ] : exposing postmodernist myths about science / / edited by Noretta Koertge

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetto topico: Science; Science - Social aspects; Science and state; Research - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KoertgeNoretta
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Comprising new essays by distinguished scholars of history philosophy, and science, this book raises a lively debate to a new level of seriousness.
• Titolo autorizzato: A house built on sand
• ISBN: 0-19-511726-3; 0-19-978599-6; 1-280-52962-8; 9786610529629; 0-19-802776-1; 1-60256-238-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455733003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II