Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed? a Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science

by Richard C. Brown

Book Overview

This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls "postmodern interpretations of science" (PIS) and the closely related "sociology of scientific knowledge" (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a "social construction", having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9812835245
• ISBN13: 9789812835246
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"