Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars

From the reviews: "This book is a collection of 14 technical essays by 15 authors ... . Its main concern is discussions on (1) whether what science tells us about the universe is determined unambiguously by experimental data/facts or (2) whether scientific theory and its related experimental procedures are ...dependent upon human strengths and weaknesses. ... A novel feature of this volume is the inclusion of significant cultural studies and biological studies. Overall, the book is a useful source of ideas in the need of formalization." (Albert A. Mullin, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1064, 2005)

• Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism.- Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence.- Scientific Objectivity with a Human Face Four Reflections from a Pragmatist Point of View.- On Social Constructivist Accounts of the Natural Sciences.- Experimental Success and the Revelation of Reality: The Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism.- True is What is Considered True—What is Considered True is True.- Realism and Biological Knowledge.- Objective Facts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs.- Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority Experience and the Erosion of Certainties in Illiterate and Literate Societies.- Some Remarks on the Hard Core of Soft Sciences.- The Mote and the Beam Who’s Blind to Whom.- Neither Modernist Nor Postmodernist—A Third Way.- From Science Wars to Science Worries: Some Reflections on the Scientific Conquest of Reality.- Science Wars? Historical, Social and Epistemological Aspects of the “Sokal-Debate”.- Acknowledgements.