Scandalous Knowledge : Science, Truth and the Human.
Title:
Scandalous Knowledge : Science, Truth and the Human.
Author:
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara.
ISBN:
9780748626342
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Series:
The Frontiers of Theory
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Scandals of Knowledge -- Chapter 2 Pre-Post-Modern Relativism -- Chapter 3 Netting Truth: Ludwik Fleck's Constructivist Genealogy -- Chapter 4 Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology -- Chapter 5 Disciplinary Cultures and Tribal Warfare: The Sciences and the Humanities Today -- Chapter 6 Super Natural Science: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology -- Chapter 7 Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
This new book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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