A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science 0195117255, 9780195117257

Table of contents :
Front Cover......Page 1
Front Jacket......Page 2
Title Page......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Contributors......Page 13
Scrutinizing Science Studies......Page 19
Part I The Strange World of Postmodernist Science Studies......Page 23
1 What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove - Alan D. Sokal......Page 25
2 What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us - Paul A. Boghossian......Page 39
3 A Plea for Science Studies - Philip Kitcher......Page 48
Part II Myths, Metaphors, and Readings......Page 73
4 Bashful Eggs, Macho Sperm, and Tonypandy - Paul R. Gross......Page 75
5 An Engineer Dissects Two Case Studies - Philip A. Sullivan......Page 87
6 Evidence - Free Forensics and Enemies of Objectivity - Paul R. Gross......Page 115
7 Is Darwinism Sexist? (And if It Is, So What7) - Michael Ruse......Page 135
Part III Interests, Ideology, and the Neglect of Experiments......Page 147
8 When Experiments FailIs Cold FusionŽ Science as Normal? - William J. McKinney......Page 149
9 Avoiding the Experimenters Regress - Allan Franklin......Page 167
10 - Do Mutants Die of Natural Causes? The Case of Atomic Parity Violation - Allan Franklin......Page 182
11 Latours Relativity - John Huth......Page 197
Part IV Art, Nature, and the Rise of Experimental Method......Page 209
12 In Defense of Bacon - Alan Soble......Page 211
13 Alchemy, Domination, and Gender - William R. Newman......Page 232
14 What Is Wrong with the Strong Programmes Case Studyof the Hobbes-Boyle DisputeŽ? - Cassandra L. Pinnick......Page 243
15 Reflections on Bruno Latours Version of the Seventeenth Century - Margaret C. Jacob......Page 256
Part V Civilian Casualties of Postmodern Perspectives on Science......Page 271
16 Postmodemisms and the Problem of Scientific Literacy - Noretta Koertge......Page 273
17 The End of Science, the Central Dogma of Science Studies, Monsieur Jourdain, and Uncle Vanya- Norman Levitt......Page 288
18 The Epistemic Charity of the Social Constructivist Criticsof Science and Why the Third World Should Refuse the Offer - Meera Nanda......Page 302
Index......Page 329
Back Jacket......Page 343
Back Cover......Page 344

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