1st Edition

After the Science Wars Science and the Study of Science

By Keith Ashman, Phillip Barringer Copyright 2001
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    The "War" in science is largely the discussion between those who believe that science is above criticism and those who do not. After the Science Wars is a collection of essays by leading philosophers and scientists, all attempting to bridge interdisciplinary gulfs in this discussion.

    Contributors, 1 Introduction: the “science wars”, 2 What the Social Text affair does and does not prove, 3 Randomized thoughts of a cultural turncoat, 4 Reading and relativism, 5 Pure objects and useful knowledges, 6 Objectivity and ethno-feminist critiques of science, 7 Measuring the Hubble constant, 8 Above, beyond, and at the center of the science wars, 9 Voodoo medicine in a scientific world, 10 The stigma of reason, 11 The reenchantment of science, 12 Anticipations, Iindex

    Biography

    Keith Ashman and Phillip Baringer are both at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas, USA.