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Are science and mathematics socially constructed? : a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science
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Are science and mathematics socially constructed? : a mathematician encounters postmodern interpretations of science

Author: Richard C Brown
Publisher: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Publishing, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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This book analysis 'postmodern interpretations of science' (PIS) and the closely related 'sociology of scientific knowledge' (SSK). It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard C Brown
ISBN: 9789812835246 9812835245
OCLC Number: 236343709
Description: xvii, 317 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Rip van Winkle awakes --
A golden age and its end --
Ingredients in the PIS bouillabaisse --
A canary in the mine --
The unmasking of reason --
Thought styles and thought collectives --
The reluctant revolutionary --
Anything goes --
The sociological attack --
The deconstruction of mathematics --
Epistemic issues --
The fallibility of conventionalism and fallibilism --
Madison 1973 --
Kto Kogo?
Responsibility: Richard C. Brown.

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