A House Built on Sand读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 334页 | 2020 |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ 124.30 | 2020-02-20 … | 2020-07-05 … | 87 |
Cultural critics say that 'science is politics by other means,' arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological agendas of powerful elites. Physicist Alan Sokal recently poked fun at these claims by foisting a sly parody of the genre on the unwitting editors of the cultural studies journal "Social Text", touching off a still-unabated torrent of heated discussion. This hard-hitting collection picks up where Sokal left off. The essayists offer crisp and detailed critiques of case studies offered by the cultural critics as evidence that scientific results tell as more about social context than they do about the natural world. Pulling no punches, they identify numerous crude factual blunders (e.g. that Newton never performed any experiments) and egregious errors of omission, such as the attempt to explain the slow development of fluid dynamics solely on the terms of gender bias. Where there are positive aspects of a flawed account,or something to be learned from it, they do not hesitate to say so. Their target is shoddy scholarship. Comprising new essays by distinguished scholars of history, philosophy and science (including Sokal himself), this book raises lively debate to a new level of seriousness.
作者简介诺里塔·克瑞杰，美国印第安那大学科学哲学与历史教授。她的研究领域包括科学史、科学哲学与科学文化。在科学文化研究方面，她主编了Nature and Causes of Homosexuality:A Philosophy and Scientific Inquiry与Daphne Patai合著了Professing Feminism:Cau-tionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies。
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