Book

The knowledge book : key concepts in philosophy, science and culture / Steve Fuller.

Fuller, Steve, 1959- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780773533462 (bound)
ISBN: 9780773533479 (pbk.)
ISBN: 077353346X (bound)
ISBN: 0773533478 (pbk.)
Physical Description: ix, 222 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Montreal ; McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-219) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Analytic social epistemology -- Common sense versus collective memory -- Consensus versus dissent -- Criticism -- Disciplinary versus interdisciplinarity -- Epistemic justice -- Evolution -- Expertise -- Explaining the cognitive content of science -- Explaining the normative structure of science -- Feminism -- Folk epistemology -- Free enquiry -- Historiography -- Information science -- Knowledge management -- Knowledge policy -- Knowledge society -- Kuhn, Popper and logical positivism -- Mass media -- Multiculturalism -- Naturalism -- Normativity -- Philosophy versus sociology -- Postmodernism -- Progress -- Rationality -- Relativism versus constructivism -- Religion -- Rhetoric -- Science and technology studies -- Science as a social movement -- Science wars -- Social capital versus public good -- Social constructivism -- Social epistemology -- Social science -- Sociology of knowledge -- Translation -- Truth, reliability and the ends of knowledge -- Universalism versus relativism -- University.