Scandalous Knowledge : : Science, Truth and the Human / / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620234);This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science. Smith reviews the key issues involved in the twentieth-century critiq...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- 1. Introduction: Scandals of Knowledge
- 2. Pre-Post-Modern Relativism
- 3. Netting Truth: Ludwik Fleck's Constructivist Genealogy
- 4. Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology
- 5. Disciplinary Cultures and Tribal Warfare: The Sciences and the Humanities Today
- 6. Super Natural Science: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology
- 7. Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations
- Works Cited
- Index