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Who rules in science? : an opinionated guide to the wars / James Robert Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, James Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Science and state.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 236 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Brown takes us through the various engagements in the science wars--from the infamous "Sokal affair" to angry confrontations over the nature of evidence, the possibility of objectivity, and the methods of science--to show how the contested terrain may be science, but the prize is political: Whoever wins the science wars will have an unprecedented influence on how we are governed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674006526
- OCLC:
- 47023379
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