242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why trust science? Why should science have more authority than "other ways of knowing?" Is science merely a social construct? Or even worse: a tool of oppression? This book boldly takes on these and other explosive questions—lodged by ideologues on the left and the right—and offers readers a well researched defense of science and a polemic addressed to its detractors.
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Introduction: What Has Science Done for Me Lately?
1: The "Science Wars" and Why They Had to Be Won
2: The Facts About Social Constructivism
3: Thomas Kuhn: Foe of Science?
4: Thomas Kuhn: Friend of Science?
5: Can We Have Good Science and the Right Values?
6: Dinosaur Revolutions
7: How We Know About Big, Complex Things
Conclusion: What is Really Wrong with Science
Bibliography
Biography
Keith M. Parsons is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Emeritus at The University of Houston-Clear Lake. His books include God and the Burden of Proof (1989), Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (2001), and Bombing the Marshall Islands: A Cold War Tragedy (2017; coauthored with Robert A. Zaballa).
