Are science and mathematics socially constructed? : a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science
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Are science and mathematics socially constructed? : a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science
World Scientific Publishing, c2009
- : hardcover
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls "postmodern interpretations of science" (PIS) and the closely related "sociology of scientific knowledge" (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a "social construction", having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex.Since the 1970s, PIS has become fashionable in the humanities, social sciences, and ethnic or women's studies, as well as in the new academic discipline of Science, Technology, and Society (STS). It has been attacked by numerous authors and the resulting conflicts led to the so-called Science Wars of the 1990s. While the present book is also critical of PIS, it focuses on its intellectual and political origins and tries to understand why it became influential in the 1970s. The book is both an intellectual and a political history. It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Steve Woolgar, Steve Shapin, Bruno Latour, and PIS-like doctrines in mathematics. It also describes various philosophical contributions to PIS ranging from the Greek sophists to 20th century post-structuralists and argues that the disturbed political atmosphere of the Vietnam War era was critical to the rise of PIS.
目次
- The Invisibility of Postmodern Interpretations of Science (PIS) to Scientists
- Typical PIS Theses
- Views of Science - Postwar and Now
- A Golden Age and Its End
- Philosophical Ingredients in the PIS Bouillabaisse
- Karl Popper - A Canary in the Mine, Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge
- Ludwik Fleck, a Precursor of Kuhn
- Thomas Kuhn, the Reluctant Revolutionary
- A"Anything GoesA" - Paul Feyerabend's Philosophy of Science
- The Final Deconstruction of Science: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
- Ontological Issues
- David Bloor and the Strong Program
- Bruno Latour and Laboratory Politics
- Alan Gross and Science as Rhetoric
- Harry Collins and the Experimenter's Regress
- Social Constructivism
- Feminism and Afro-Centrism
- PIS and Mathematics
- Madison in 1973
- The Vietnam War and PIS
- Philosophic Objections to PIS
- Realism vs. Anti-Realism
- Colin McGinn's Thesis
- Political and Science Policy Consequences of PIS
- A New Outbreak of the Science Wars?.
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