商品簡介
Taking on questions of scientific rationality, the social construction of scientific truth, and the authority and cultural biases of scientific practice, this reader offers arguments from both sides of the "science wars" that burst into public view with the hoax played by physicist Alan Sokal on the journal Social Text . The implications of that hoax are debated in the 13 writings presented by Parsons (philosophy, U. of Houston), as are such issues as feminist criticisms of objectivity, debates over the arbitrariness of the scientific method, and conservative attacks on science as a danger to religion. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Keith Parsons (Houston, TX), is professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, Clear Lake; the author of God and the Burden of Proof, among other books; and the editor of The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology.
