Science Wars

Taylor & Francis

Preface\nAcknowledgments\nChapter 1The Science Wars\n*Platonist or Aristotelian?\n*Temperament and Visions\n*Early Science Wars: A Very Short History\n*The Current Scene\n*Conclusion\nChapter 2Social Constructionism\n*What Is Social Constructionism?\n*Weak versus Strong Social Constructionism\n*Fact Constructionism\n*Sticking Points: Contingency, Nominalism, and Scientific Stability\n*Conclusion\nChapter 3Science and Knowing\n*Defending Science\n* Rationalism\n*Francis Bacon and Empiricism\n*Bacon and Metaphor\n*Thomas Kuhn and Scientific Relativism and Revolution\n*Relativism\n*Conclusion\nChapter 4The Conceptual Tools of Science\n*Terms of Opprobrium\n*Determinism and Freedom\n*\""Biological Determinism\""\n*Essentialism\n*Reductionism\n*Conclusion\nChapter 5Human Nature\n*Is There a Human Nature, and How Do We Know?\n*Natural Selection and Human Nature\n*Sexual Selection and Male-Female Natures\n*Selection for Biparental Care and Its Consequences\n*Conclusion\nChapter 6Social Constrx