A house built on sand exposing postmodernist myths about science /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Koertge, Noretta
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Subjects:	Science. Science > Social aspects. Science and state. Research > Philosophy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:

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.

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