Is science our most precious possession or has our culture elevated science into a false idol? Is technology a useful servant or a malign genie? These questions are at the centre of the 'science wars' currently being waged over the role and future of science and technology in our society. This balanced selection of a variety of perspectives on the hotly contested role of science and technology in contemporary society will clarify this vital debate for both specialists and non-specialists.
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"...a compact book that should be required reading for all scientists." -- Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2003
"...key papers from both sides of the arguments in one volume...excellent primer on the sociology of science..." -- Fortean Times, November 2003
"...key papers from both sides of the arguments in one volume...excellent primer on the sociology of science..." -- Fortean Times, November 2003
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Keith Parsons is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Houston and the author of GOD AND THE BURDEN OF PROOF and DRAWING OUT LEVIATHAN: DINOSAURS AND THE SCIENCE WARS.
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By John C. Landon "nemonemini" (New York City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology (Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)) (Paperback)
This is a useful collection of articles on the science wars, although it seems like the thesis has been set up for easy challenge by antithesis, and science emerges victorious once again, leviathan, heat pump, and the rest. It seems the constructivist critique of science got off on the wrong foot and lost a sense of perspective, making the retort of science fundamentalists all too easy. The point, or what should have been the point, is that current science cannot resolve all issues of reality, yet claims hegemony over all forms of knowledge. The science wars never go around to the main event. And it is interesting through the whole debate Darwinism remained untouched. In fact, that angle seems to have been left to the ID critics, and we have Philip Johnson's essay on science, from Reason in Balance. But a critique of scientific methodology in that form is inadequate. So one can only regret the lack of 'guts' in the progression of critics from Kuhn, to Popper, Feyerbend, and the rest. Interesting enough collection
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New York, Social Text, Sandra Harding, Primate Visions, Royal Society, Bruno Latour, Thomas Kuhn, Harvard University Press, Thomas Hobbes, Donna Haraway, Princeton University Press, Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology, Steven Weinberg, Andrew Ross, Lingua Franca, The Science Question, Whose Science, Alan Sokal, Cornell University Press, Matt Cartmill, New Haven, Brief History of Time, Johns Hopkins University Press, Starting Thought, Stephen Hawking New!
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New York, Social Text, Sandra Harding, Primate Visions, Royal Society, Bruno Latour, Thomas Kuhn, Harvard University Press, Thomas Hobbes, Donna Haraway, Princeton University Press, Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology, Steven Weinberg, Andrew Ross, Lingua Franca, The Science Question, Whose Science, Alan Sokal, Cornell University Press, Matt Cartmill, New Haven, Brief History of Time, Johns Hopkins University Press, Starting Thought, Stephen Hawking New!
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- Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour on 15 pages
- Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin on 11 pages
- Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson on 11 pages
- Science Wars by Andrew Ross on 10 pages
- Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science by Donna J. Haraway on 7 pages
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