Latour, Musil, and the discourse of nonmodernity.(general articles)

symploke;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......article titled Deconstructing the 'Science Wars' by Reconstructing an Old Mold...Bruno Latour, some version of the science wars has been with us since the advent...modernity, and, Latour argues, the science wars will not go away until we cease...

Science & the promise of democracy in America.

Daedalus;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......intellectual skirmishes known as the science wars have centered on whether scientific...and biologists naturally dispute. The science wars, he writes, are a series of credibility...am not convinced. I believe that the science wars express something more than a substantive...

When worlds collide: the global exportation of anti-enlightenment...

Social Theory and Practice;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......more popular presses referred to as the science wars. This ideological battle reached a frenzied...science to engage in fruitful debate. The science wars, like other nebulous politically charged...side can confidently say we won. In the science wars particularly, polarized opposites ...

You can't follow the science wars without a battle map.

The Economist (US);  December 13, 1997 ;     700+ words ......another. As the name suggests, the science wars belong mostly to the second sort. Though the science wars had burst on the university world years...boundaries nor political labels. If the science wars amounted to no more than a wicked academic...

CONFESSIONS OF A DISAGREEABLE MAN.

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  June 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......vigorously argue that I, along with various science wars allies, am a nasty piece of work, intent...journal Social Text in 1996 brought the science wars out of the dim corridors of academia...reviled) hoax article appeared in the Science Wars issue (double no. 46/47) of Social Text...

Confessions of a disagreeable man

Skeptic;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......vigorously argue that I, along with various "science wars" allies, am a nasty piece of work, intent...journal Social Text in 1996 brought the science wars out of the dim corridors of academia...reviled) hoax article appeared in the "Science Wars"issue (double no. 46/47) of Social ...

Science and society. (Books).(Book Review)

Issues in Science and Technology;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......be unremarkable were it not for the science wars of the 1990s. During that decade, scientists...oppression of women and people of color. The science wars reached a broader audience when physicist...to talk past each other that gave the science wars their absurdist feel. ...

The science wars and the future of the American academic profession.

Daedalus;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......history and substance of what have come to be known as the science wars, offer a recommendation for a more charitable view of science...enterprise and the academic profession. A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF THE SCIENCE WARS Arguably, the person who has had the greatest influence on...

Books: When scientists go to war Graham Farmelo on an astronomer caught up...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 16, 1997 ;     697 words ......The joke turned nasty with the outbreak of the undeclared Science Wars now being fought between, on one side, a group of orthodox...wrong-headed rebel. Whatever the outcome, commentators on the Science Wars will be intrigued by Hawkins's account of one of the conflict...

My Sokaled life

The Village Voice;  June 25, 1996 ;     700+ words ......gets it published in the journal's special issue on the "science wars" between critics and defenders of scientific culture, then...incident, since I've written for Social Text, the editor of the Science Wars issue is an NYU colleague and friend, and the man I live...

Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can...

Australian Journal of Social Issues;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......three parts. It opens with mention of Alan Sokal and the `science wars', arising from a notorious and hilarious `spoof paper' published...Flyvbjerg's book I thought it was an examination of the `science wars' debate. Not so. In fact, that issue is left banging. But...

Small world.(Review)

The Women's Review of Books;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......who has become a veritable antihumanist poster boy in the science wars. It's easy to see why. Using studies of ants as well as other...communism, claimed Wilson in 1994, acc ording to a quote in Science Wars (Duke University Press, 1996). No matter how inflated such...

The science wars.(objectivity and political influence on scientists)

Newsweek;  April 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ......batchlings. But why did scientists get it wrong in all three cases, and many others? That question lies at the heart of the science wars. The combatants are, on the one side, bench scientists who study the biological and physical world and, on the other, sociologists...

The One Culture? A Conversation about Science

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  January 1, 2002 ;     177 words ......conferences in the mid-1990's that aimed to provide a more reasoned setting for debate than that provided by the so-called science wars (the most spectacular episode of which was physicist Alan Sokal's trick, a 1996 article in Social Text that purported to...

Inside Science.(the path to professional notoriety in science is a long...

American Scholar;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......been entirely amicable; it has even been referred to as The Science Wars. We thought it might be useful to send forth a description...as seen from the inside. We can hardly hope to bring the science wars to an end just when they are becoming amusing, but perhaps...