The One Culture? : A Conversation about Science /

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So far the "Science Wars" have generated far more heat than light. Combatants from one or the other of what C. P. Snow famously called "the two cultures" (science versus the arts and humanities) have launched bitter attacks but have seldom engaged in constructive dialogue about t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barsky, Constance K. (Contribuidor), Bricmont, Jean (Contribuidor), Collins, Harry (Contribuidor, Editor ), Dear, Peter (Contribuidor), Gregory, Jane (Contribuidor), Labinger, Jay A. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Lynch, Michael (Contribuidor), Mermin, N. David (Contribuidor), Miller, Steve (Contribuidor), Pinch, Trevor (Contribuidor), Saulson, Peter R. (Contribuidor), Shapin, Steven (Contribuidor), Sokal, Alan (Contribuidor), Weinberg, Steven (Contribuidor), Wilson, Kenneth G. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
SCIENCE / General.
science, legitimacy, scientific knowledge, polanyi, turing, wittgenstein, sociology, public opinion, policy, government, popular culture, physics, history, epistemography, research questions, social construction, antiscience, relativism, methodology, contingency, overdetermination, experience, authority, historiography, philosophy, academia, nonfiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
  • Part One. POSITIONS
  • PHILOSOPHIES
  • 2. Does Science Studies Undermine Science? Wittgenstein, Turing, and Polanyi as Precursors for Science Studies and the Science Wars
  • 3. Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and Peace
  • 4. Is a Science Peace Process Necessary?
  • PERSPECTIVES
  • 5. Caught in the Crossfire? The Public's Role in the Science Wars
  • 6. Life inside a Case Study
  • ORIGINS
  • 7. Conversing Seriously with Sociologists
  • 8. How to be Antiscientific
  • DIRECTIONS
  • 9. Physics and History
  • 10. Science Studies as Epistemography
  • 11. From Social Construction to Questions for Research: The Promise of the Sociology of Science
  • 12. A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
  • 13. Awakening a Sleeping Giant?
  • Part Two. Commentaries
  • 14. Remarks on Methodological Relativism and "Antiscience"
  • 15. One More Round with Relativism
  • 16. Overdetermination and Contingency
  • 17. Reclaiming Responsibility
  • 18. Split Personalities, or the Science Wars Within
  • 19. Situated Knowledge and Common Enemies: Therapy for the Science Wars
  • 20. Real Essences and Human Experience
  • 21. It's a Conversation!
  • 22. Confessions of a Believer
  • 23. Barbarians at Which Gates?
  • 24. Peace at Last?
  • Part Three. Rebuttals
  • 25. Reply to Our Critics
  • 26. Crown Jewels and Rough Diamonds: The Source of Science's Authority
  • 27. Another Visit to Epistemography
  • 28. Let's Not Get Too Agreeable
  • 29. Causality, Grammar, and Working Philosophies: Some Final Comments
  • 30. Readings and Misreadings
  • 31. Peace for Whom and on Whose Terms?
  • 32. Pilgrims' Progress
  • 33. Historiographical Uses of Scientific Knowledge
  • 34. Beyond Social Construction
  • 35. Conclusion
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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