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Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars

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Editors:
  1. Martin Carrier

    1. Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie, Abteilung Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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  2. Johannes Roggenhofer

    1. Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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  3. Günter Küppers

    1. Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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  4. Philippe Blanchard

    1. Fakultät für Physik, Forschungszentrum BiBoS, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Martin Carrier, Johannes Roggenhofer, Günter Küppers, Philippe Blanchard
    Pages 1-15

  3. Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism

    • Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont
    Pages 17-53

  4. Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence

    • Howard Sankey
    Pages 55-79

  5. Scientific Objectivity with a Human Face

    • Holm Tetens
    Pages 81-104

  6. On Social Constructivist Accounts of the Natural Sciences

    • S. Barry Barnes
    Pages 105-136

  7. Experimental Success and the Revelation of Reality: The Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism

    • Martin Carrier
    Pages 137-161

  8. True is What is Considered True—What is Considered True is True

    • Günter Küppers
    Pages 163-170

  9. Realism and Biological Knowledge

    • Jean Gayon
    Pages 171-190

  10. Objective Facts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs

    • Holk Cruse
    Pages 191-209

  11. Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority

    • Georg Elwert
    Pages 211-236

  12. Some Remarks on the Hard Core of Soft Sciences

    • Maurice Godelier
    Pages 237-246

  13. The Mote and the Beam

    • Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond
    Pages 247-263

  14. Neither Modernist Nor Postmodernist — A Third Way

    • Mara Beller
    Pages 265-292

  15. From Science Wars to Science Worries: Some Reflections on the Scientific Conquest of Reality

    • Johannes Roggenhofer
    Pages 293-305

  16. Science Wars?

    • Jochen Hoock
    Pages 307-321

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 323-328
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The fundamental question of whether, or in what sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts, or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human condition? "Sokal’s hoax" attacked the mere seriousness of post-modern views of science and shifted this controversial debate to a new level, which very quickly came to be known as "Science Wars".

"Knowledge and the World" examines and reviews the broad range of philosophical positions on this issue, extending from realism to relativism, to expound the epistemic merit of t science, and to tackle the central question: in what sense can science justifiably claim to provide a truthful portrait of reality? Challenges beyond the Science Wars are taken up by contributions of scientists, sociologists and philosophers of science, which connect perspectives of a wide variety of disciplines (including biology and cultural studies). This book addresses everyone interested in the philosophy and history of science, and in particular in the interplay between the social and natural sciences.

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"This book is a collection of 14 technical essays by 15 authors … . Its main concern is discussions on (1) whether what science tells us about the universe is determined unambiguously by experimental data/facts or (2) whether scientific theory and its related experimental procedures are …dependent upon human strengths and weaknesses. … A novel feature of this volume is the inclusion of significant cultural studies and biological studies. Overall, the book is a useful source of ideas in the need of formalization." (Albert A. Mullin, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1064, 2005)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie, Abteilung Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Martin Carrier

  • Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Johannes Roggenhofer

  • Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Günter Küppers

  • Fakultät für Physik, Forschungszentrum BiBoS, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Philippe Blanchard

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars

  • Editors: Martin Carrier, Johannes Roggenhofer, Günter Küppers, Philippe Blanchard

  • Series Title: The Frontiers Collection

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08129-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-21009-2Published: 05 May 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05905-6Published: 22 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-08129-7Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1612-3018

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 328

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Social Sciences, general

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