STS 2411 Lecture Notes - Antiscience, Western Canon, Plastic Arts
9 Jul 2013
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Week 14- labinger and collins, introduction the science wars" and the 2 cultures (1-6) , hernstein-smith, unloading the self-refutation charge (73-87) Science wars- lecture notes set of debates that took place 10-15 years ago. Published an article: transgressing the boundaries" in a science wars, theme issue of social text. The article is a theoretical attempt to connect his work with He reveals a month later that it was all bullshit and the new york times didn"t even notice. He was attempting to say that sts scientists didn"t have enough knowledge. And as well as the standards of the journals, that should have caught the nonsense he wrote. Post-modern philosophy of science is essentially just anything goes" nonsense. Book: higher superstition: they argue that sts scientists and scholars are not really smart people who don"t know what they are talking abt.
