Sale!

Scandalous knowledge science truth and the human 1st Edition by Barbara Herrnstein Smith ISBN 0748626344 9780748626342

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $35.00.

Scandalous knowledge science truth and the human 1st Edition Smith Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
ISBN(s): 9780748626342, 0748626344
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.62 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
SKU: EB-5279890 Categories: , Tags: ,

Scandalous knowledge science truth and the human 1st Edition by Barbara Herrnstein Smith – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0748626344, 9780748626342
Full download Scandalous knowledge science truth and the human 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0748626344 
ISBN 13: 9780748626342
Author: Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Throughout the recent culture and science “wars,” the radically new conceptions of knowledge and science emerging from such fields as the history and sociology of science have been denounced by various journalists, scientists, and academics as irresponsible attacks on science, absurd denials of objective reality, or a cynical abandonment of truth itself. In Scandalous Knowledge , Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores and illuminates the intellectual contexts of these crude denunciations. A preeminent scholar, theorist, and analyst of intellectual history, Smith begins by looking closely at the epistemological developments at issue. She presents a clear, historically informed, and philosophically sophisticated overview of important twentieth-century critiques of traditional—rationalist, realist, positivist—accounts of human knowledge and scientific truth, and discusses in detail the alternative accounts produced by Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour, and others. With keen wit, Smith demonstrates that the familiar charges involved in these scandals—including the recurrent invocation of “postmodern relativism”—protect intellectual orthodoxy by falsely associating important intellectual developments with logically absurd and morally or politically disabling positions. She goes on to offer bold, original, and insightful perspectives on the currently strained relations between the natural sciences and the humanities; on the grandiose but dubious claims of evolutionary psychology to explain human behavior, cognition, and culture; and on contemporary controversies over the psychology, biology, and ethics of animal-human relations. Scandalous Knowledge is a provocative and compelling intervention into controversies that continue to roil through journalism, pulpits, laboratories, and classrooms throughout the United States and Europe.

Scandalous knowledge science truth and the human 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Scandals of Knowledge
Chapter 2 Pre-Post-Modern Relativism
Chapter 3 Netting Truth: Ludwik Fleck’s Constructivist Genealogy
Chapter 4 Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology
Chapter 5 Disciplinary Cultures and Tribal Warfare: The Sciences and the Humanities Today
Chapter 6 Super Natural Science: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology
Chapter 7 Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations

People also search for Scandalous knowledge science truth and the human 1st:

    
difference truth and fact
    
truth vs fact
    
what is scientific truth
    
science of truth
    
scientific truth definition

Tags: Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Scandalous, human