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Are science and mathematics socially constructed? : (Record no. 87226)

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LC control number	2009497278
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International Standard Book Number	9789812835246 (hbk.)

International Standard Book Number	9812835245 (hbk.)
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Transcribing agency	HBCSE
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Classification number	501
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Personal name	Brown, Richard C.
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Title	Are science and mathematics socially constructed? :
Remainder of title	a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science /
Statement of responsibility, etc	Richard C. Brown.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc	Singapore ;
--	Hackensack, N.J. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc	World Scientific Publishing,
Date of publication, distribution, etc	c2009.
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Extent	xvii,317p. ;
Dimensions	9x6
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Bibliography, etc	Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls “postmodern interpretations of science” (PIS) and the closely related “sociology of scientific knowledge” (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a “social construction”, having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex.Since the 1970s, PIS has become fashionable in the humanities, social sciences, and ethnic or women's studies, as well as in the new academic discipline of Science, Technology, and Society (STS). It has been attacked by numerous authors and the resulting conflicts led to the so-called Science Wars of the 1990s. While the present book is also critical of PIS, it focuses on its intellectual and political origins and tries to understand why it became influential in the 1970s. The book is both an intellectual and a political history. It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Steve Woolgar, Steve Shapin, Bruno Latour, and PIS-like doctrines in mathematics. It also describes various philosophical contributions to PIS ranging from the Greek sophists to 20th century post-structuralists and argues that the disturbed political atmosphere of the Vietnam War era was critical to the rise of PIS.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Science
General subdivision	Philosophy.

Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Mathematics
General subdivision	Philosophy.
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Are science and mathematics socially constructed? : (Record no. 87226)