Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.

Author/creator Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
Descriptionviii, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesScience and cultural theory
Science and cultural theory. ^A446465
Contents Introduction: Scandals of Knowledge -- Pre-Post-Modern Relativism -- Netting Truth: Ludwik Fleck's Constructivist Genealogy -- Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology -- Disciplinary Cultures and Tribal Warfare: The Sciences and the Humanities Today -- Super Natural Science: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology -- Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [172]-185) and index.
LCCN 2005027127
ISBN0822338106 (hdbk.)
ISBN9780822338109 (hdbk.)
ISBN0822338483 (pbk.)
ISBN9780822338482 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks Q175.32.C66 S65 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold