{"product_id":"scandalous-knowledge-science-truth-and-the-human","title":"Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eScandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBarbara Herrnstein Smith\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780822338482\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDuke University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThroughout the recent culture and science \"wars,\" the radically new conceptions of knowledge and science emerging from such fields as the history and sociology of science have been denounced by various journalists, scientists, and academics as irresponsible attacks on science, absurd denials of objective reality, or a cynical abandonment of truth itself. In \u003ci\u003eScandalous Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores and illuminates the intellectual contexts of these crude denunciations. A preeminent scholar, theorist, and analyst of intellectual history, Smith begins by looking closely at the epistemological developments at issue. She presents a clear, historically informed, and philosophically sophisticated overview of important twentieth-century critiques of traditional--rationalist, realist, positivist--accounts of human knowledge and scientific truth, and discusses in detail the alternative accounts produced by Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour, and others. \u003cp\u003eWith keen wit, Smith demonstrates that the familiar charges involved in these scandals--including the recurrent invocation of \"postmodern relativism\"--protect intellectual orthodoxy by falsely associating important intellectual developments with logically absurd and morally or politically disabling positions. She goes on to offer bold, original, and insightful perspectives on the currently strained relations between the natural sciences and the humanities; on the grandiose but dubious claims of evolutionary psychology to explain human behavior, cognition, and culture; and on contemporary controversies over the psychology, biology, and ethics of animal-human relations. \u003ci\u003eScandalous Knowledge \u003c\/i\u003eis a provocative and compelling intervention into controversies that continue to roil through journalism, pulpits, laboratories, and classrooms throughout the United States and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human | Barbara Herrnstein Smith | Paperback | 9780822338482 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1776006","offer_id":50758154256642,"sku":"1776006","price":21.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51XTBDLCzNL.jpg?v=1792037729","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/scandalous-knowledge-science-truth-and-the-human","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}