Metaphor, concept and theory change: deconstruction as critical ontology -- Deconstruction and epistemology: Bachelard, Derrida, de Man -- Ontological relativity and meaning variance: a critical-constructive review -- Quantum mechanics: a case for deconstruction? -- Hermeneutics, anti-realism and philosophy of science -- Anti-realism and constructive empiricism: is there a (real) difference? -- Ontology according to Van Fraasen: some problems with constructive empiricism -- Stuck in the mangle: sociology of science and its discontents -- But will it fly? Aerodynamics as a test case for anti-realism -- Why strong sociologists abhor a vacuum: Shapin and Schaffer on the Boyle-Hobbes controversy -- Leviathan and the turbojet: a critique of sociological unreason.