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Reasonable science.(Book Review)
Susan Haack Defending Science--Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism. Prometheus Books, 396 pages, $28
There are, Susan Haack says, two opposing schools of thought about science: the New Cynics, as she calls them, who believe science is a shabby social construct of the ruling class, and the Old Deferentialists, who believe science has a uniquely rational method of reaching the truth. Her plan is to steer a middle course between the two. She pursues this plan across a wide field of issues, a much broader spectrum than is found in traditional philosophy of science or sociology of science books--including, for example, expert scientific evidence in law as ...
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...OIE and for the social sciences in general (Hodgson...should be an evolutionary science. However, I am skeptical...Economics or the Social Sciences in general. I argue...Pragmatist Approach to Science Both Hodgson and Lawson...Pragmatists such as Susan Haack. Classical Pragmatism...
- Science's inquiring minds succeed despite flaws.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Siegfried, Tom April 19, 2004 700+ words
...science isn't an exact science, either. It's full of...ingenuity, and luck. "Science is not sacred," writes the philosopher Susan Haack. "Like all human enterprises...You might even say that science isn't a science; it...
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant Sandall, Roger May 1, 2006 700+ words
...CYNICISM MISTAKES IN SCIENCE bring howls of glee...of whom evidently see science as a mistake in itself...The New Cynics" by Susan Haack--believe scientific...Bruno Latour argued that science was mainly about academic...propositions in the sciences, "is in no way affected...
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