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Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human (The Frontiers of Theory) - Hardcover

Herrnstein Smith, Barbara

 
9780748620234: Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human (The Frontiers of Theory)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0748620230 ISBN 13: 9780748620234
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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 critiques of traditional views of human knowledge and scientific truth and gives an extensively informed explanation of the alternative accounts developed by Fleck, Kuhn, Foucault, Latour, and others. She also addresses the various anxieties (e.g., over ‘relativism’) and ‘wars’ occasioned by these developments, placing them in their historical contexts and arguing that they are largely misplaced or spurious. Smith then examines the currently perplexed relations between the natural and human sciences, the grandiose claims and dubious methods of evolutionary psychology, and the complex play of naturalist, humanist, and posthumanist ideologies in contemporary views of the relation between humans and animals.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren


Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the Duke University


Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the Duke University

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748620230
ISBN 13 
9780748620234
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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