Science and Its FabricationU of Minnesota Press, 1990 - 142 pages While acknowledging its theory-ladeness, Chalmers (history and philosophy, U. of Sydney) defends the objectivity of scientific knowledge against those critics for whom such knowledge is both subjective and ideological. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Against Universal Method | 11 |
The Aim of Science | 24 |
Observation Objectified | 41 |
Experiment | 61 |
Science and the Sociology of Knowledge | 80 |
Two Sociological Case Studies | 96 |
The Social and Political Dimension of Science | 115 |
Appendix The Extraordinary Prehistory of | 126 |
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