The Science wars Flashcards
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Postmodernists
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Cultural movement adopting sceptical attitude to principles and assumptions of new science, replacing traditional way of life. Particularly realism (Feyerabend, Latour etc)
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Social construction
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They believed realism is not how well statements represent reality, but how well language is used to support the paradigm that the group shared.
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The science wars
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The debate between scientists and postmodernists.
4
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Feyerebends epistemological anarchism
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Denied the methodological guidelines. If there’s one principle, it should be ‘anything goes’.
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Lakatos sophisticated falsification
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more nuanced version. Scientists don’t give up theories so easily, but switch when better theory is found. Not as descriptive.
