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Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed? A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations Of Science (Hardcover)
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Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed? A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations Of Science (Hardcover)
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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.
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