Martin Carrier, Johannes Roggenhofer, Günter Küppers, Philippe Blanchard
The fundamental question whether, or in which 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? "Sokals hoax" added a new dimension to this controversial debate, which very quickly came to been known as "Science Wars." "Knowledge and the World" examines and reviews the broad range of philosophical positions on this issue, stretching from realism to relativism, to expound the...
The fundamental question whether, or in which sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. I...