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Are science and mathematics socially constructed?[electronic resource] :a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	501
書名/作者:	Are science and mathematics socially constructed? : a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science // Richard C. Brown.
作者:	Brown, Richard C.
出版者:	Singapore ; : World Scientific,, c2009.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xvii, 317 p.)
標題:	Science - Philosophy.
標題:	Mathematics - Philosophy.
ISBN:	9789812835253 (electronic bk.)
ISBN:	9812835253 (electronic bk.)
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index.
摘要、提要註:	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."
電子資源:	http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7039#t=toc

Are science and mathematics socially constructed?[electronic resource] :a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science /
Brown, Richard C.

Are science and mathematics socially constructed?a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science /[electronic resource] :Richard C. Brown. - Singapore ;World Scientific,c2009. - 1 online resource (xvii, 317 p.)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index.

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."

ISBN: 9789812835253 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

370617
Science
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336502
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: Q175 / .B796 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 501

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