Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2004, 2004
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2004 |
| Series: | The Frontiers Collection
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism
- Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence
- Scientific Objectivity with a Human Face Four Reflections from a Pragmatist Point of View
- On Social Constructivist Accounts of the Natural Sciences
- Experimental Success and the Revelation of Reality: The Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism
- True is What is Considered True—What is Considered True is True
- Realism and Biological Knowledge
- Objective Facts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs
- Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority Experience and the Erosion of Certainties in Illiterate and Literate Societies
- Some Remarks on the Hard Core of Soft Sciences
- The Mote and the Beam Who’s Blind to Whom
- Neither Modernist Nor Postmodernist—A Third Way
- From Science Wars to Science Worries: Some Reflections on the Scientific Conquest of Reality
- Science Wars? Historical, Social and Epistemological Aspects of the “Sokal-Debate”
- Acknowledgements