Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes Mystery of Mysteries, an enlightening inquiry into the nature of science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. |
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... ( Dawkins 1996 , 223 ) . Values in Dawkins's Science Richard Dawkins is explicit in making his pitch to the general reader . He does not sacrifice everything to the most rigorous and theoretical of scientific ends , such as striving to ...
... Dawkins's mandate . But let us not underestimate his achievement . The intention - let us be fair , the successful intention - is to present work which acknowledges tough standards . The spoken claim is that work before that which Dawkins ...
... ( Dawkins 1976 , 177 ) . A huge amount of hostility to religion is also characteristic of Dawkins's writings unambiguously reflecting Dawkins's own values . Recently , this hostility has become so obsessional and so overt that one might ...
Contents
KARL POPPER AND THOMAS KUHN Two Theories of Science | 13 |
ERASMUS DARWIN From Fish to Philosopher | 37 |
CHARLES DARWIN On the Origin of Species | 54 |
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