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Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Argues that postmodern relativism (and related critiques of science studies) is a thoroughly straw construction and that attacks on it have often turned into demands for dogmatism.
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Barbara Herrnstein Smith addresses a set of contemporary issues involving knowledge and science from a constructivist-pragmatist perspective often labeled relativism. Practicing that relativism means being conscious of the existence and…
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Focuses upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. This title offers a sophisticated approach, recognizing science and religion as complex and distinct domains of…
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What happens to law, science, and the pursuit of social justice when the ideas of truth, reason, and objectivity are rejected? This question is at the heart of the controversies…
While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory-haunted by the heresy of relativism-remains captive to classical formulas. Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s book confronts the conceptual problems and sociopolitical conflicts…
Explores the question: How do poems end? This work examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall…
Barbara Herrnstein Smith,Smith
Controversy over what role the great books should play in college curricula and questions about who defines the literary canon are at the forefront of debates in higher education. This…
A collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist history and…
An issue of South Atlantic Quarterly.
Judith Jarvis Thomson
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? This book explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions.
