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A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science

Noretta Koertge

New York : Oxford University Press 1998

Localização: IF - Instituto de Física    (501 K78h )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science
  • Autor: Noretta Koertge
  • Assuntos: Science; Science -- Social aspects; Science and state; Research -- Philosophy; CIÊNCIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Descrição: Scrutinizing science studies / What the social text affair does and does not prove / What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us / Plea for science studies / Bashful eggs, macho sperm, and Tonypandy / Engineer dissects two case studies : Hayles on fluid mechanics, and MacKenzie on statistics / Evidence-free forensics and enemies of objectivity / Is Darwinism sexist? (and if it is, so what?) / When experiments fail : is "cold fusion" science as normal? / Avoiding the experimenters' regress / Latour's relativity / In defense of Bacon / Alchemy, domination, and gender / What's wrong with the strong programme's case study of the "Hobbes-Boyle" dispute / Postmodernisms and the problem of scientific literacy / End of science, the central dogma of science studies, Monsieur Jordain, and Uncle Vanya / Epistemic charity of the social constructivist critics of science and why the third world should refuse the offer /
  • Editor: New York : Oxford University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1998
  • Formato: xi, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm..
  • Idioma: Inglês

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