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Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars

Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars

by JamesRobertBrown (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

    $9.30
Synopsis

In Who Rules in Science? James Brown takes us through the various engagements in the science wars - from the infamous Sokal affair to angry confrontations over the nature of evidence, the possibility of objectivity, and the methods of science - to show how the contested terrain may be science, but the prize is political: Whoever wins the science wars will have an unprecedented influence on how we are governed.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 252
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 03 Dec 2001
ISBN 10: 0674006526
ISBN 13: 9780674006522

Media Reviews
In Who Rules in Science, James Brown... warns that there's much more at stake here than people realize. This is not just a battle between postmodernist philosophers and working scientists over whether an electron is real or merely a social construction. It's about who gets to define reality, truth and rationality. - Sheilla Jones, Globe and Mail; This book is a lively, engrossing overview of the philosophical and political issues at stake in the current debates about science. Brown doesn't pull any punches in stating his own views, but he always takes care to present fairly even those arguments with which he disagrees. And he's an equal-opportunity debunker: scientists, sociologists and his fellow philosophers all come in for (mostly justified) criticism. - Alan Sokal, coauthor of Fashionable Nonsense