Article: Scandalizing science?(Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human)(Book review)

Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Scandals, Scandals

The main title of Barbara Herrnstein Smith's Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human is intriguing. Although it sounds somewhat reminiscent of a nineteenth-century pornographic novel, it actually refers to two "Big Issues" in the philosophy of science. One is the Kantian scandal of philosophy--its inability to demonstrate the possibility of knowledge about the external world and to provide secure grounds for a claim to rationality. Orthodox epistemology, or positivism, has failed to rebut Pyrrhonian ...

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