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The Science Wars are taken to have more significance than just that of exposing unbecoming metaphors. The relation between science, reality, and social practice is seen as the core problem of the debate. Neither relativism nor realism have come up with satisfactory solutions to the problem. It is argued that science has a special relation to reality, making its results partially independent of social...
The issue whether or in which sense science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Ancient and Renaissance astronomers alike extensively addressed the question if astronomical theory was restricted to “saving the phenomena” of celestial motion or could single out the real mechanisms that produced the stellar appearances. The relationship between knowledge...
The fundamental question of whether, or in what sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts, or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human condition? "Sokal’s hoax" attacked the mere seriousness of post-modern views of science...
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