Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory - Softcover

Norris, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631198652 ISBN 13: 9780631198659

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1997

Synopsis

This book offers a vigorous and constructive challenge to relativism by examining a wide range of anti-realist theories, and in response offering a variety of arguments amounting to a strong defence of critical realism in the natural and social sciences.

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From the Back Cover:

This book offers a vigorous and constructive challenge to the various forms of anti-realist and cultural-relativist thinking. By examining a wide range of anti-realist theories, the author is able to highlight the problems, including the ethical dilemmas, to which they give rise, and in response offer a variety of arguments amounting to a strong defence of critical realism in the natural and social sciences. These arguments are drawn from a wide range of sources such as theoretical physics, philosophical semantics, deconstruction and critical theory. This book will thus be of interest to both students and scholars in the fields of critical theory, philosophy and history of science, and epistemology, demonstrating as it does the incoherence of anti-realist doctrines.

About the Author:

Christopher Norris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and an Associate Fellow of the Centre of Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. His work has been widely published in both British and American journals, and he is author of thirteen books to date, including Uncritical Theory: postmodernism, intellectuals and the Gulf War (1992), The Truth About Postmodernism (1993) and Truth and the Ethics of Criticism (1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0631198652
• ISBN 13: 9780631198659
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344