Science Without Myth: On Constructions, Reality, and Social Knowledge

by Sergio Sismondo

Book Overview

By looking at science as a social and political activity, researchers have created novel accounts of scientific practice and rationality, accounts that largely contradict the dominant ideologies of science. Science without Myth is a philosophical introduction to and discussion of these social and political studies of science--a discussion of the social construction of scientific knowledge as a product of communities and societies marked by the circumstances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791427331
• ISBN13: 9780791427330
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 199 Pages