Scandalous knowledge : science, truth and the human /: science, truth and the human. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
• Other Names: Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
• Contents: Introduction: Scandals of Knowledge -- Pre-Post-Modern Relativism -- Netting Truth: Ludwik Fleck's Constructivist Genealogy -- Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology -- Disciplinary Cultures and Tribal Warfare: The Sciences and the Humanities Today -- Super Natural Science: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology -- Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 198 pages)
• Subjects: 501; Constructive realism; Knowledge, Theory of; Postmodernism; Science -- Philosophy; SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Constructive realism; Knowledge, Theory of; Postmodernism; Science -- Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748626342; 0748626344; 9780748671670; 0748671676; 9780748620234; 0748620230
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-185) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.