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Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed?: A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science

Autor RICHARD C BROWN
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 feb 2009
This book analysis 'postmodern interpretations of science' (PIS) and the closely related 'sociology of scientific knowledge' (SSK). It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Steve Shapin, Bruno Latour, and PIS-like doctrines in mathematics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789812835246
ISBN-10: 9812835245
Pagini: 317
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Locul publicării:Singapore

Cuprins

The Invisibility of Postmodern Interpretations of Science (PIS) to Scientists; Typical PIS Theses; Views of Science - Postwar and Now; A Golden Age and Its End; Philosophical Ingredients in the PIS Bouillabaisse; Karl Popper - A Canary in the Mine, Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge; Ludwik Fleck, a Precursor of Kuhn; Thomas Kuhn, the Reluctant Revolutionary; A"Anything GoesA" - Paul Feyerabend's Philosophy of Science; The Final Deconstruction of Science: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge; Ontological Issues; David Bloor and the Strong Program; Bruno Latour and Laboratory Politics; Alan Gross and Science as Rhetoric; Harry Collins and the Experimenter's Regress; Social Constructivism; Feminism and Afro-Centrism; PIS and Mathematics; Madison in 1973; The Vietnam War and PIS; Philosophic Objections to PIS; Realism vs. Anti-Realism; Colin McGinn's Thesis; Political and Science Policy Consequences of PIS; A New Outbreak of the Science Wars?.