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The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science

New Books in the History of Science

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Science Studies - Epistemic Relativism

Science legitimates itself by linking its discoveries with power, a connection which determines what counts as reliable knowledge. The basic argument with epistemic relativism is that none of the knowledge we have is true in any objective or universal sense. It's all socially constructed, and that includes science. So science is purely power ideology and social convention. In other words, science is politics by other means.

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