Knowledge and the world: challenges beyond the science wars

The fundamental question whether, or in which sense, science informs us aboutthe 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 condition? "Sokal's hoax" added a new dimension to this controversial debate, which very quickly came to been known as "Science Wars". "Knowledge and the World" examinesand reviews the broad range of philosophical positions on this issue, stretching from realism to relativism, to expound the epistemic merits of science, and to address the central question: in which sense can science justifiably claim to provide a truthful portrait of reality? This book addresses everyone interested in the philosophy and history of science, and in particular in the interplay between the social and natural sciences. INDICE: Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism.- Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence.- Scientific Objectivity With a Human Face.- On SocialConstructivist Accounts of the Natural Science.- Experimental Success and theRevelation of Reality: the Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism.- True is What is Considered True is True.- Realism and Biological Knowledge.- ObjectiveFacts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs.- The Mote and the Beam.- Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority.- Neither Modernist Nor Postmodernist - A Third Way.- From Science Wars to Science Worries: Some Reflections on the Conquest of Reality.- ;Science Wars? Historical, Social, and Epistemological Aspects of the Sokal/Bricmont Debate.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-05905-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés