Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed?
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| Author | : Richard C. Brown |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789812835253 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9812835253 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed? by : Richard C. Brown
Book excerpt: This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls OC postmodern interpretations of scienceOCO (PIS) and the closely related OC sociology of scientific knowledgeOCO (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn''s revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a OC social constructionOCO, having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex.
