TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koertge,Noretta
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - A house built on sand: exposing postmodernist myths about science 
AV  - Q172 .H68 1998eb
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Science and state
KW  - Research
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Scrutinizing science studies; Noretta Koertge --; What the social text affair does and does not prove; Alan D. Sokal --; What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us; Paul A. Boghossian --; Plea for science studies; Philip Kitcher --; Bashful eggs, macho sperm, and Tonypandy; Paul R. Gross --; Engineer dissects two case studies: Hayles on fluid mechanics, and MacKenzie on statistics; Philip A. Sullivan --; Evidence-free forensics and enemies of objectivity; Paul R. Gross --; Is Darwinism sexist? (And if it is, so what?); Michael Ruse --; When experiments fail: is "cold fusion" science as normal?; William J. McKinney --; Avoiding the experimenters' regress; Allan Franklin --; Latour's relativity; John Huth --; In defense of Bacon --; Alchemy, domination, and gender; William R. Newman --; What's wrong with the strong programme's case study of the "Hobbes-Boyle" dispute; Cassandra L. Pinnick --; Postmodernisms and the problem of scientific literacy; Noretta Koertge --; End of science, the central dogma of science studies, Monsieur Jordain, and Uncle Vanya; Norman Levitt --; Epistemic charity of the social constructivist critics of science and why the third world should refuse the offer; Meera Nanda; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -