Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: the "science wars" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 What the Social Text affair does and does not prove -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Randomized thoughts of a cultural turncoat -- 4 Reading and relativism -- Hatchet jobs -- An unforgiving reading -- A forgiving reading -- What's this, Polus? -- I am not a reference frame -- Places in space -- Masculine channels and feminine flows -- The excision of the observer -- When a mathematical point moves -- The oracle of deconstruction -- The Einsteinian constant -- A center for a structure -- Relativism and social constructivism -- A pledge of allegiance to truth -- Reading Roger Anyon -- Reasoning about relativism -- A postmodernist dummy about truth -- A postmodernist dummy about justification -- Reality is hard to talk about -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Pure objects and useful knowledges -- Why are the sciences and the humanities at war? -- Cultural influences on knowledge production -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Objectivity and ethno-feminist critiques of science -- Introduction: objectivity, science, and scientists -- The analogy between sex/gender and race as biological/ social categories -- Three categories of race and gender-related mistakes that can infect science and scientific theory -- Examples -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Measuring the Hubble constant -- The value of disagreement -- The Hubble constant controversy -- Implications for the objectivity of science -- Bridging the gulf -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Above, beyond, and at the center of the science wars -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Voodoo medicine in a scientific world -- Introduction -- The great global warming debate -- Strange attraction -- What is science? -- Notes -- Bibliography.

10 The stigma of reason -- Introduction -- The gift of uncertainty -- Blinded by the light -- Race and reason -- The neo-romantic turn -- The pathos of the biocentric -- The irrational at zenith -- The death of truth -- Either/or -- The social reality of irrationalism -- Irrationalism in context -- Objectionable nonsense -- "Sudden and annihilating doubt" -- Irrationalism as a problem -- Irrationalism redivivus -- The flight from reason -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11 The reenchantment of science -- The science wars as signaling the end of scientific puritanism -- The secularization of science as a precondition for its reenchantment -- Distinguishing the enchanted and disenchanted mind: the mark of theodicy -- Two disenchanted theodicies: invisible hand and natural selection -- The cost of disenchantment: a failed scientific defense of human freedom -- Conclusions: meeting Weber's challenge and transcending the science wars -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- 12 Anticipations -- Preface -- Witches must burn -- The day the magic came back -- Index.