附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: the "science wars" ; Notes; Bibliography; 2 What the Social Text affair does and does not prove; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Randomized thoughts of a cultural turncoat; 4 Reading and relativism; Hatchet jobs; An unforgiving reading; A forgiving reading; What's this, Polus?; I am not a reference frame; Places in space; Masculine channels and feminine flows; The excision of the observer; When a mathematical point moves; The oracle of deconstruction; The Einsteinian constant; A center for a structure.
Relativism and social constructivismA pledge of allegiance to truth; Reading Roger Anyon; Reasoning about relativism; A postmodernist dummy about truth; A postmodernist dummy about justification; Reality is hard to talk about; Notes; Bibliography; 5 Pure objects and useful knowledges; Why are the sciences and the humanities at war?; Cultural influences on knowledge production; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Objectivity and ethno-feminist critiques of science; Introduction: objectivity, science, and scientists; The analogy between sex/gender and race as biological/ social categories.
Three categories of race and gender-related mistakes that can infect science and scientific theoryExamples; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 7 Measuring the Hubble constant; The value of disagreement; The Hubble constant controversy; Implications for the objectivity of science; Bridging the gulf; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; 8 Above, beyond, and at the center of the science wars; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Voodoo medicine in a scientific world; Introduction; The great global warming debate; Strange attraction; What is science?; Notes; Bibliography; 10 The stigma of reason; Introduction.
The gift of uncertaintyBlinded by the light; Race and reason; The neo-romantic turn; The pathos of the biocentric; The irrational at zenith; The death of truth; Either/or; The social reality of irrationalism; Irrationalism in context; Objectionable nonsense; "Sudden and annihilating doubt"; Irrationalism as a problem; Irrationalism redivivus; The flight from reason; Notes; Bibliography; 11 The reenchantment of science; The science wars as signaling the end of scientific puritanism; The secularization of science as a precondition for its reenchantment.
Distinguishing the enchanted and disenchanted mind: the mark of theodicyTwo disenchanted theodicies: invisible hand and natural selection; The cost of disenchantment: a failed scientific defense of human freedom; Conclusions: meeting Weber's challenge and transcending the science wars; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; 12 Anticipations; Preface; Witches must burn; The day the magic came back; Index.
摘要:The ""War"" in science is largely the discussion between those who believe that science is above criticism and those who do not. After the Science Wars is a collection of essays by leading philosophers and scientists, all attempting to bridge interdisciplinary gulfs in this discussion.
