001478259 000__ 06897nam\a22008415i\4500 001478259 001__ 1478259 001478259 003__ DE-B1597 001478259 005__ 20231026034853.0 001478259 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478259 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478259 008__ 220524t20212001mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478259 020__ $$a9780674028876 001478259 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674028876$$2doi 001478259 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574420 001478259 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1257324295 001478259 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478259 0410_ $$aeng 001478259 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478259 072_7 $$aSCI000000$$2bisacsh 001478259 08204 $$a306.45 001478259 1001_ $$aBrown, James Robert, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478259 24510 $$aWho Rules in Science? :$$bAn Opinionated Guide to the Wars /$$cJames Robert Brown. 001478259 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2021] 001478259 264_4 $$c©2001 001478259 300__ $$a1 online resource (256 p.) 001478259 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478259 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478259 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478259 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478259 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478259 520__ $$aWhat if something as seemingly academic as the so-called science wars were to determine how we live? This eye-opening book reveals how little we've understood about the ongoing pitched battles between the sciences and the humanities--and how much may be at stake. James Brown's starting point is C. P. Snow's famous book, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, which set the terms for the current debates. But that little book did much more than identify two new, opposing cultures, Brown contends: It also claimed that scientists are better qualified than nonscientists to solve political and social problems. In short, the true significance of Snow's treatise was its focus on the question of who should rule--a question that remains vexing, pressing, and politically explosive today. In Who Rules in Science? Brown takes us through the various engagements in the science wars--from the infamous "Sokal affair" to angry confrontations over the nature of evidence, the possibility of objectivity, and the methods of science--to show how the contested terrain may be science, but the prize is political: Whoever wins the science wars will have an unprecedented influence on how we are governed. Brown provides the most comprehensive and balanced assessment yet of the science wars. He separates the good arguments from the bad, and exposes the underlying message: Science and social justice are inextricably linked. His book is essential reading if we are to understand the forces making and remaking our world. Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgments 1. Scenes from the Science Wars 2. The Scientific Experience 3. How We Got to Where We Are 4. The Nihilist Wing of Social Constructivism 5. Three Key Terms 6. The Naturalist Wing of Social Constructivism 7. The Role of Reason 8. The Democratization of Science 9. Science with a Social Agenda Afterword Notes Bibliography Index Reviews of this book: Meaty and challenging are the words to describe Brown's treatment of the arguments that go on over the nature and social impact of science. "The battleground in the current round of the science wars," he writes, "is epistemology (What is evidence? Objectivity? Rationality? Could any belief be justified?).The stakes are political, however; social issues are constantly lurking in the background. How we structure and organize our society is the consequence. Whoever wins the science wars will have an unprecedented influence on how we are governed. Brown, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, gives a rich and closely reasoned discussion of the issues in the science wars.--Scientific AmericanReviews of this book: Brown ably takes on many of the claims proffered by the antiscience camp and argues that the logic in those claims is faulty. Brown's engaging style makes accessible complex issues central to the philosophy of science.--Publishers WeeklyReviews of this book: While what has been known as "the science wars" seems to have finally played itself out--not, so much as I can tell, that distrust between the sciences and humanities has been settled, but that interest on the part of spectators has pretty well waned--the issues that animated the debate, and their practical importance in everyday life, may not have been successfully clarified for the general public. James Robert Brown's Who Rules in Science? is the clearest, most accessible book on the subject for the general reader that I have come across during the many years of this bickering.--Tom Bowden, TechDirectionsReviews of this book: In Who Rules in Science, James Brown.warns that there's much more at stake here than people realize. 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