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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Scrutinizing Science Studies <i>Noretta Koertge</i>
- Notes
- Part I
- What the <i>Social Text</i> Affair Does and Does Not Prove <i>Alan D. Sokal</i>
- 2 What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us <i>Paul A. Boghossian</i>
- 3 A Plea for Science Studies <i>Philip Kitcher</i>
- Part II
- 4 Bashful Eggs, Macho Sperm, and Tonypandy <i>Paul R. Gross</i>
- An Engineer Dissects Two Case Studies <i>Hayles on Fluid Mechanics and MacKenzie on Statistics</i> <i>Philip A. Sullivan</i>
- 6 Evidence‐Free Forensics and Enemies of Objectivity Paul R. Gross
- 7 Is Darwinism Sexist? (<i>And if It Is, So What?</i>) <i>Michael Ruse</i>
- Part III
- 8 When Experiments Fail <i>Is “Cold Fusion” Science as Normal?</i> <i>William J. McKinney</i>
- 9 Avoiding the Experimenters' Regress <i>Allan Franklin</i>
- 10 Do Mutants Die of Natural Causes? <i>The Case of Atomic Parity Violation</i> <i>Allan Franklin</i>
- 11 Latour's Relativity <i>John Huth</i>
- <b>Part IV</b> Art, Nature, and the Rise of Experimental Method
- 12 In Defense of Bacon
- 13 Alchemy, Domination, and Gender <i>William R. Newman</i>
- 14 What Is Wrong with the Strong Programme's Case Study of the “Hobbes–Boyle Dispute”? <i>Cassandra L. Pinnick</i>
- 15 Reflections on Bruno Latour's Version of the Seventeenth Century <i>Margaret C. Jacob</i>
- Part V
- 16 Postmodernisms and the Problem of Scientific Literacy <i>Noretta Koertge</i>
- 17 The End of Science, the Central Dogma of Science Studies, Monsieur Jourdain, and Uncle Vanya <i>Norman Levitt</i>
- 18 The Epistemic Charity of the Social Constructivist Critics of Science and Why the Third World Should Refuse the Offer <i>Meera Nanda</i>
- Index
(p.193) Part IV Art, Nature, and the Rise of Experimental Method
(p.193) Part IV Art, Nature, and the Rise of Experimental Method
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- A House Built on Sand
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Scrutinizing Science Studies <i>Noretta Koertge</i>
- Notes
- Part I
- What the <i>Social Text</i> Affair Does and Does Not Prove <i>Alan D. Sokal</i>
- 2 What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us <i>Paul A. Boghossian</i>
- 3 A Plea for Science Studies <i>Philip Kitcher</i>
- Part II
- 4 Bashful Eggs, Macho Sperm, and Tonypandy <i>Paul R. Gross</i>
- An Engineer Dissects Two Case Studies <i>Hayles on Fluid Mechanics and MacKenzie on Statistics</i> <i>Philip A. Sullivan</i>
- 6 Evidence‐Free Forensics and Enemies of Objectivity Paul R. Gross
- 7 Is Darwinism Sexist? (<i>And if It Is, So What?</i>) <i>Michael Ruse</i>
- Part III
- 8 When Experiments Fail <i>Is “Cold Fusion” Science as Normal?</i> <i>William J. McKinney</i>
- 9 Avoiding the Experimenters' Regress <i>Allan Franklin</i>
- 10 Do Mutants Die of Natural Causes? <i>The Case of Atomic Parity Violation</i> <i>Allan Franklin</i>
- 11 Latour's Relativity <i>John Huth</i>
- <b>Part IV</b> Art, Nature, and the Rise of Experimental Method
- 12 In Defense of Bacon
- 13 Alchemy, Domination, and Gender <i>William R. Newman</i>
- 14 What Is Wrong with the Strong Programme's Case Study of the “Hobbes–Boyle Dispute”? <i>Cassandra L. Pinnick</i>
- 15 Reflections on Bruno Latour's Version of the Seventeenth Century <i>Margaret C. Jacob</i>
- Part V
- 16 Postmodernisms and the Problem of Scientific Literacy <i>Noretta Koertge</i>
- 17 The End of Science, the Central Dogma of Science Studies, Monsieur Jourdain, and Uncle Vanya <i>Norman Levitt</i>
- 18 The Epistemic Charity of the Social Constructivist Critics of Science and Why the Third World Should Refuse the Offer <i>Meera Nanda</i>
- Index
