Titlebook: Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars; Martin Carrier,Johannes Roggenhofer,Philippe Blanc Book 2004 Springer-Verlag

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,True is What is Considered True—What is Considered True is True,nowledge: the reduction of uncertainties as to which statements about the world would always be confronted with. This uncertainty management has a technical as well as a social dimension. Within the technical dimension it is mainly the progress of measurement technology. Within the social dimension

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Realism and Biological Knowledge,realism” (which assume the objective reality of theoretical entities), and the metaphysical thesis of the independent reality of the world. The realism of theoretical entities, which is a modern version of the “realism of universals”, is rendered problematic by the extreme difficulty these sciences

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Objective Facts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs,he result of direct sensory input, but a construct of our brain. This construction system, an internal world model, is used to achieve a consistent (not necessarily true) interpretation of the world, necessary for both sensing and acting. This system uses sensory data as well as innate mechanisms an

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Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority,dge transformation. Three modes of intellectual operation can be distinguished: empirical evidence, deduction and moral authority. The processes of erosion and reconstitution of certainties are basically identical in the whole spectrum of human societies. It is only different forms of embedding the

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,Neither Modernist Nor Postmodernist — A Third Way,the components of logical positivism that directly lead to relativism. I argue that the notion of consensus creates major problems in historiography and philosophy of science, preventing a description of scientific change. I further argue that the concept of creative disagreement should be introduce

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Science Wars?,, but its epistemological and theoretical aspects should be taken equally serious. Along the lines of its chronological development the debate is shown to consist of a series of arguments and counter-arguments reflecting the long-running controversy about the roles and interrelations of content and

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