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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt

Why have parts of the academic left turned on modern science, and is their critique sound?

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Author
Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt

Why read it

  • You will see why the authors say scientists should answer criticisms of science dressed up as social analysis
  • You will learn to tell honest social study of science apart from attacks on it dressed up as theory or politics
  • You will question claims from postmodern and literary theory that even logic and mathematics are mere social products

Who it is for

  • Scientist wondering why some scholars distrust science
  • Humanities student reading both sides of the science wars
  • Reader who wants a polemic defending scientific reasoning

Contents

  1. Higher Superstition
  2. Preface to the 1998 Edition
  3. ONE The Academic Left and Science
  4. TWO Some History and Politics: Natural Science and Its Natural Enemies
  5. THREE The Cultural Construction of Cultural Constructivism
  6. Preface to the 1998 Edition
  7. CHAPTER ONE The Academic Left and Science
  8. CHAPTER TWO Some History and Politics: Natural Science and Its Natural Enemies
  9. CHAPTER THREE The Cultural Construction of Cultural Constructivism
  10. CHAPTER FOUR The Realm of Idle Phrases: Postmodernism, Literary Theory, and Cultural Criticism
  11. CHAPTER FIVE Auspicating Gender
  12. CHAPTER SIX The Gates of Eden
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN The Schools of Indictment
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT Why Do the People Imagine a Vain Thing?
  15. CHAPTER NINE Does It Matter?
  16. Supplementary Notes to the 1998 Edition

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