Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human /

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This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science. Smith reviews the key issues involved in the twentieth-century critiques of traditional views of human knowledge and scienti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
Series:Frontiers of theory.
Subjects:
Constructive realism.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Postmodernism.
Science > Philosophy.
Réalisme constructiviste (Philosophie)
Théorie de la connaissance.
Postmodernisme.
epistemology.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Constructive realism
Knowledge, Theory of
Postmodernism
Science > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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