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Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Barbara Herrnstein.
- Series:
- Science and cultural theory.
- Science and cultural theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constructive realism.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology social studies of science and contemporary cognitive science.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-7167-6
- 1-280-71572-3
- 9786610715725
- 0-7486-2634-4
- OCLC:
- 476028316
- Publisher Number:
- 9780748626342
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