A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Scrutinizing science studies / Noretta Koertge
- What the social text affair does and does not prove / Alan D. Sokal
- What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us / Paul A. Boghossian
- Plea for science studies / Philip Kitcher
- Bashful eggs, macho sperm, and Tonypandy / Paul R. Gross
- Engineer dissects two case studies : Hayles on fluid mechanics, and MacKenzie on statistics / Philip A. Sullivan
- Evidence-free forensics and enemies of objectivity / Paul R. Gross
- Is Darwinism sexist? (and if it is, so what?) / Michael Ruse
- When experiments fail : is "cold fusion" science as normal? / William J. McKinney
- Avoiding the experimenters' regress / Allan Franklin
- Latour's relativity / John Huth
- In defense of Bacon / Alan Soble
- Alchemy, domination, and gender / William R. Newman
- What's wrong with the strong programme's case study of the "Hobbes-Boyle" dispute / Cassandra L. Pinnick
- Postmodernisms and the problem of scientific literacy / Noretta Koertge
- End of science, the central dogma of science studies, Monsieur Jordain, and Uncle Vanya / Norman Levitt
- Epistemic charity of the social constructivist critics of science and why the third world should refuse the offer / Meera Nanda.