University of Chicago Press,
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The one culture? : a conversation about science
Does science studies undermine science? Wittgenstein, Turing, and Polanyi as precursors for science studies and the science wars / Science and sociology of science: beyond war and peace / Is a science peace process necessary? / Caught in the crossfire? The public's role in the science wars / Life inside a case study / Conversing seriously with sociologists / How to be antiscientific / Physics and history / Science studies as epistemography / From social construction to questions for research: the promise of the sociology of science / Martian sends a postcard home / Awakening a sleeping giant? / Remarks on methodological relativism and "antiscience' / One more round with relativism / Overdetermination and contingency / Reclaiming responsibility / Split personalities, or the science wars within / Situated knowledge and common enemies: therapy for the science wars / Real essences and human experience / It's a conversation! / Confessions of a believer / Barbarians at which gates? / Peace at last? / Reply to our critics / Crown jewels and rough diamonds: the source of science's authority
Another visit to epistemography / Let's not get too agreeable / Causality, grammar, and working philosophies: some final comments / Readings and misreadings / Peace for whom and on whose terms? / Pilgrims' progress / Historiographical uses of scientific knowledge / Beyond social construction
Labinger, Jay A.
Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-
Trevor Pinch -- Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal -- Michael Lynch -- Jane Gregory, Steve Miller -- Peter R. Saulson -- N. David Mermin -- Steven Shapin -- Steven Weinberg / Peter Dear -- Kenneth G. Wilson, Constance K. Barsky -- Harry Collins -- Jay A. Labinger -- Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokat -- Harry Collins -- Peter Dear -- Jane Gregory -- Jay A. Labinger -- Michael Lynch -- N. David Mermin -- Trevor Pinch -- Peter R. Saulson -- Steven Shapin -- Steven Weinberg -- Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal -- Harry Collins
Peter Dear -- Jay A. Labinger -- Michael Lynch -- N. David Mermin -- Trevor Pinch -- Peter R. Saulson -- Steven Weinberg -- Kenneth G. Wilson, Constance K. Barsky.
edited by Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins.
The one culture? : a conversation about science