Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human / / Barbara Herrnstein Smith [[electronic resource]]
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 121 |
| Soggetto topico: | Constructive realism |
| Knowledge, Theory of | |
| Postmodernism | |
| Science - Philosophy | |
| 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 |
| 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.: | 9910457077903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Science and cultural theory.