A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science [E-Book] / edited by Noretta Koertge.
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Personal Name(s): | Koertge, Noretta. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998
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xi, 322 pages : illustrations |
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englisch |
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- 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.