Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human / / Barbara Herrnstein Smith



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Smith Barbara Herrnstein Visualizza persona
Titolo: Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human / / Barbara Herrnstein Smith Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 501
Soggetto topico: Constructive realism
Knowledge, Theory of
Science - Philosophy
Postmodernism
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Scandalous knowledge  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7486-7167-6
1-280-71572-3
9786610715725
0-7486-2634-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820959803321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Science and cultural theory.