Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality

by James Robert Brown and George Albert Brown

Book Overview

Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible. Yet this wonderful picture of humanity's best efforts at knowledge has been badly bruised by numerous critics. James Robert Brown in Smoke and Mirrors fights back against figures such as Richard Rorty, Bruno Latour, Michael Ruse and Hilary Putnam who have attacked realist accounts of science.
But this volume is not wholly devoted to combating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415091810
• ISBN13: 9780415091817
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"