Science Without Myth: On Constructions, Reality, and Social Knowledge (Suny Series in Science, Technology, and Society) [Hardcover]

Sergio Sismondo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1996 | Series: Suny Series in Science, Technology, and Society

The book argues that there are a number of important and interesting ways in which scientific knowledge can be a social construction but that it often is knowledge of the material world; therefore, this book is an essay on mediationor the mediatory roles of scientists between nature and knowledge. By identifying and separating different senses of the "construction" metaphor, this book displays senses in which scientists construct knowledge, phenomena, and even worlds. It shows science as made up of thoroughly social processes and that those processes create representations of a pre-existing material world. Science without Myth's argument provides a counter-balance to skeptical tendencies of constructivist studies of science and technology by showing that skepticism cannot cut so deeply as to deny the possibility of knowledge and representation.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Sergio Sismondo is William Webster Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 199 pages
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691080925
• ISBN-13: 978-0691080925
• ASIN: 0791427331
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,585,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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