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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Hacking |
| ISBN: | 067481200X 9780674812000 |
| OCLC Number: | 39936231 |
| Description: | x, 261 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Why ask what? -- Too many metaphors -- What about the natural sciences? -- Madness: biological or constructed? -- Kind-making: the case of child abuse -- Weapons research -- Rocks -- The end of Captain Cook. |
| Responsibility: | Ian Hacking. |
Abstract:
"Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality."--BOOK JACKET.
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