Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?

ISBN-13: 9780674005433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str.

Michael Ruse

Opis

With the Sokal hoax - the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies - the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? This text adds to the argument, using evolutionary theory as a case study.