Drawing out Leviathan :dinosaurs and the science wars
- 作者: Parsons, Keith M.,
- 出版: Bloomington : Indiana University Press ©2001.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxii, 210 pages) :illustrations.
- 叢書名: Life of the past
- 標題: Science Philosophy. , Science Social aspects. , NATURE Animals -- Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures. , Aspect social. , Earth & Environmental Sciences. , Geology. , Philosophy. , Sciences , Science , NATURE , Dinosaurs. , Dinosaures. , AnimalsDinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures. , Dinosaurs , Social aspects. , Paleozoology. , Dinosauria (extinct superorder) , Sciences Aspect social. , Electronic books.
- ISBN: 0253339375 , 9780253339379
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index. Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why the Science War Matter; 1 Mr. Carnegie's Sauropods; 2 The Heresies of Dr. Bakker; 3 The ConversionŽ of David Raup; 4 Are Dinosaurs Social Constructs?; 5 Le Dinosaure Postmoderne; 6 History, Whiggery, and Progress; 7 Beyond the Science Wars; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.
- 摘要: For some years, the 'Science Wars' have raged in academe and in the press. Unlike the usual academic tempest in the teapot, the stakes in this controversy are high. They standing of science in our culture turns on the outcome. Will science continue to occupy a position of authority or will it be demoted to just one of many competing 'voices'? Will scientific ideas of objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry continue to be honored or will they be rejected as oppressive illusions? This book uses major debates about dinosaurs to shed light on these keenly important questions.
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" . . . are dinosaurs social constructs? Do we really know anything about dinosaurs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer." At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens the authority of science and rejects science's claims to objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry. Drawing Out Leviathan examines this argument in the light of some major debates about dinosaurs: the case of the wrong-headed dinosaur, the dinosaur "heresies" of the 1970s, and the debate over the extinction of dinosaurs. Keith Parsons claims that these debates, though lively and sometimes rancorous, show that evidence and logic, not arbitrary "rules of the game," remained vitally important, even when the debates were at their nastiest. They show science to be a complex set of activities, pervaded by social influences, and not easily reducible to any stereotype. Parsons acknowledges that there are lessons to be learned by scientists from their would-be adversaries, and the book concludes with some recommendations for ending the Science Wars.
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