| Description |
x, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. "Do You Believe in Reality?" News from the Trenches of the Science Wars -- 2. Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest -- 3. Science's Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot's Scientific Intelligence -- 4. From Fabrication to Reality: Pasteur and His Lactic Acid Ferment -- 5. The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur? -- 6. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus's Labyrinth -- 7. The Invention of the Science Wars: The Settlement of Socrates and Callicles -- 8. A Politics Freed from Science: The Body Cosmopolitic -- 9. The Slight Surprise of Action: Facts, Fetishes, Factishes -- Conclusion: What Contrivance Will Free Pandora's Hope? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-316) and index |
| Subject |
Realism.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
98050061 |
| ISBN |
0674653351 |
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067465336X |
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