Carrier M., Roggenhofer J., Kuppers G., Blanchard Ph. (Eds.) Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science WARS

Springer, 2004. — 325 p. — (The Frontiers Collection). — ISBN 978-3-642-05905-6.The fundamental question whether, or in which sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human condition? "Sokal`s hoax" added a new dimension to this controversial debate, which very quickly came to been known as "Science Wars".Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism
Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence
Scientific Objectivity with a Human Face Four Reflections from a Pragmatist Point of View
On Social Constructivist Accounts of the Natural Sciences
Experimental Success and the Revelation of Reality: The Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism
True is What is Considered TrueWhat is Considered True is True
Realism and Biological Knowledge
Objective Facts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs
Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority Experience and the Erosion of Certainties in Illiterate and Literate Societies
Some Remarks on the Hard Core of Soft Sciences
The Mote and the Beam Who's Blind to Whom
Neither Modernist Nor Postmodemist-A Third Way
From Science Wars to Science Worries: Some Reflections on the Scientific Conquest of Reality
Science Wars? Historical, Social and Epistemological Aspects of the "Sokal-Debate"