02475nam a2200325Ia 4500 ebr10142352 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 971203s1998 nyua sb 001 0 eng d 97047506 0195117255 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)45727603 Q172 .H68 1998eb A house built on sand [electronic resource] : exposing postmodernist myths about science / edited by Noretta Koertge. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. xi, 322 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Scrutinizing science studies / Noretta Koertge -- What the social text affair does and does not prove / Alan D. Sokal -- What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us / Paul A. Boghossian -- Plea for science studies / Philip Kitcher -- Bashful eggs, macho sperm, and Tonypandy / Paul R. Gross -- Engineer dissects two case studies: Hayles on fluid mechanics, and MacKenzie on statistics / Philip A. Sullivan -- Evidence-free forensics and enemies of objectivity / Paul R. Gross -- Is Darwinism sexist? (And if it is, so what?) / Michael Ruse -- When experiments fail: is "cold fusion" science as normal? / William J. McKinney -- Avoiding the experimenters' regress / Allan Franklin -- Latour's relativity / John Huth -- In defense of Bacon -- Alchemy, domination, and gender / William R. Newman -- What's wrong with the strong programme's case study of the "Hobbes-Boyle" dispute / Cassandra L. Pinnick -- Postmodernisms and the problem of scientific literacy / Noretta Koertge -- End of science, the central dogma of science studies, Monsieur Jordain, and Uncle Vanya / Norman Levitt -- Epistemic charity of the social constructivist critics of science and why the third world should refuse the offer / Meera Nanda. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Science. Science Social aspects. Science and state. Research Philosophy. Electronic books. local Koertge, Noretta. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10142352 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 90620 90620