Defending science - within reason: between scientism and cynicism
by Haack, Susan
Title Statements
- Full title :Defending science - within reason : between scientism and cynicism / Susan Haack ; with a new preface by the author.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Prometheus Books
- Place of Publication:Amherst, N.Y
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:xx, 411 p. ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1591024587, 9781591024583
- oclc:ocn710012478
- Dewey Decimal:501
Table of Contents
Neither sacred nor a confidence trick: the critical common-sensist manifesto -- Nail soup: a brief, opinionated history of the old deferentialism -- Clues to the puzzle of scientific evidence: a more-so story -- The long arm of common sense: instead of a theory of scientific method -- Realistically speaking: how science fumbles, and sometimes forges, ahead -- The same, only different: integrating the intentional -- A modest proposal: the sensible program in sociology of science -- Stronger than fiction: science, literature, and the "literature of science" -- Entangled in the bramble bush: science in the law -- Point of honor: on science and religion -- What man can achieve when he really puts his mind to it: the value, and the values, of science -- Not till it's over: reflections on the end of science.
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