A house built on sand exposing postmodernist myths about science / [electronic resource] :
edited by Noretta Koertge.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- xi, 322 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / Noretta Koertge -- Alan D. Sokal -- Paul A. Boghossian -- Philip Kitcher -- Paul R. Gross -- Philip A. Sullivan -- Paul R. Gross -- Michael Ruse -- William J. McKinney -- Allan Franklin -- John Huth -- William R. Newman -- Cassandra L. Pinnick -- Noretta Koertge -- Norman Levitt -- Meera Nanda.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Science.
Science--Social aspects.
Science and state.
Research--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Q172 / .H68 1998eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / Noretta Koertge -- Alan D. Sokal -- Paul A. Boghossian -- Philip Kitcher -- Paul R. Gross -- Philip A. Sullivan -- Paul R. Gross -- Michael Ruse -- William J. McKinney -- Allan Franklin -- John Huth -- William R. Newman -- Cassandra L. Pinnick -- Noretta Koertge -- Norman Levitt -- Meera Nanda.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Science.
Science--Social aspects.
Science and state.
Research--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Q172 / .H68 1998eb