• Media type: Book
  • Title: A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science
  • Contains: Scrutinizing science studies / Noretta Koertge
    Scrutinizing science studies / Noretta Koertge
    What the social text affair does and does not prove / Alan D. Sokal
    What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us / Paul A. Boghossian
    Plea for science studies / Philip Kitcher
    Bashful eggs, macho sperm, and Tonypandy / Paul R. Gross
    Engineer dissects two case studies: Hayles on fluid mechanics, and MacKenzie on statistics / Philip A. Sullivan
    Evidence-free forensics and enemies of objectivity / Paul R. Gross
    Is Darwinism sexist? (And if it is, so what?) / Michael Ruse
    When experiments fail: is "cold fusion" science as normal? / William J. McKinney
    Avoiding the experimenters' regress / Allan Franklin
    Latour's relativity / John Huth
    In defense of Bacon ; Alchemy, domination, and gender / William R. Newman
    What's wrong with the strong programme's case study of the "Hobbes-Boyle" dispute / Cassandra L. Pinnick
    Postmodernisms and the problem of scientific literacy / Noretta Koertge
    End of science, the central dogma of science studies, Monsieur Jordain, and Uncle Vanya / Norman Levitt
    Epistemic charity of the social constructivist critics of science and why the third world should refuse the offer / Meera Nanda.
    What the social text affair does and does not prove / Alan D. Sokal
    What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us / Paul A. Boghossian
    Plea for science studies / Philip Kitcher
    Bashful eggs, macho sperm, and Tonypandy / Paul R. Gross
    Engineer dissects two case studies: Hayles on fluid mechanics, and MacKenzie on statistics / Philip A. Sullivan
    Evidence-free forensics and enemies of objectivity / Paul R. Gross
    Is Darwinism sexist? (And if it is, so what?) / Michael Ruse
    When experiments fail: is "cold fusion" science as normal? / William J. McKinney
    Avoiding the experimenters' regress / Allan Franklin
    Latour's relativity / John Huth
    In defense of Bacon ; Alchemy, domination, and gender / William R. Newman
    What's wrong with the strong programme's case study of the "Hobbes-Boyle" dispute / Cassandra L. Pinnick
    Postmodernisms and the problem of scientific literacy / Noretta Koertge
    End of science, the central dogma of science studies, Monsieur Jordain, and Uncle Vanya / Norman Levitt
    Epistemic charity of the social constructivist critics of science and why the third world should refuse the offer / Meera Nanda.
  • Contributor: Koertge, Noretta [Editor]
  • Published: New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998
  • Extent: XI, 322 S.; graph. Darst
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0195117255; 0195117263
  • RVK notation: CC 3200 : Abhandlungen zur allgemeinen Wissenschaftstheorie
    AK 20000 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: Philosophie > Wissenschaft > Sozialer Tatbestand
    Naturwissenschaften > Wissenschaftstheorie
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