Are science and mathematics socially constructed? : a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science

Are science and mathematics socially constructed? a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science

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 Sci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brown, Richard C. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific c2009.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3138061x*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Rip van Winkle awakes
  • 2. A golden age and its end
  • 3. Ingredients in the PIS bouillabaisse
  • 4. A canary in the mine
  • 5. The unmasking of reason
  • 6. Thought styles and thought collectives
  • 7. The reluctant revolutionary
  • 8. Anything goes
  • 9. The sociological attack
  • 10. The deconstruction of mathematics
  • 11. Epistemic issues
  • 12. The fallibility of conventionalism and fallibilism
  • 13. Madison 1973
  • 14. Kto Kogo?

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