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... inspiration for grappling with these issues in the same apparently odd place: the work of the Polish microbiologist and comparative epistemologist Ludwik Fleck. The first part of this essay explores the role of Fleck's radical constructivism in Smith's analyses of perplexing Anthropocene realities...

... siècle (Paris: Seuil, 1997). and shrinkage along a line between universalism and particularism. We should perhaps explore another dimension, perpendicular to the first—a gradient run- 457 ning from “naturalism” to “constructivism.” If it’s true that the traditional mean- ing of cosmopolitanism...

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... us, by repeated incantation, that his “fields of sense” are, by contrast, “objective.” contrast, by “fieldsare, sense” of his that incantation, repeated by us, rather, reassure to He wants, mind). human orupthe made by projected entirely as (reality constructivism to heascribes...

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... from Sokal’s seminar. The danger you represent must be more real than that of a dispute over accounting practices or the limits of constructivism. He: Of course we represent a danger. We’re the Sokalists’ political adversaries. She: So you admit, after all, that you...

... as which, constructivism and relativism, which she lists without apology. without shelists which relativism, and constructivism hard- of forgetting danger in is scholarship...

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... published 1976 . Boghossian Paul . Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism . New York : Oxford University Press , 2006 . Brooks Rodney A. “ Intelligence without Representation .” Artificial Intelligence 47 , nos. 1 – 3 ( 1991 ): 139–59. Canguilhem...

... of social constructivism—which developed as part of the early work in science studies and in parallel with Rorty's writings—these discourses and language games are symmetrical . 16 By formalizing the idea that not only social actors and discourses but also human and nonhuman actors should be treated...

..., as currently, from the perspective of their betrayal), today's critics of electoral selection think that the “crisis of democracy” can be alleviated by adopting a different type of representation, one that bypasses (a) constructivism in constituencies formation, (b) competition in elections, and thus (c...

... constructivism.” 8 That these recent developments in science studies go beyond what Rorty offered and indeed may be more useful in certain areas is hard to dispute. In particular, their “more fine-grained accounts of situated authority and localized expertise” fill, as Gaskill suggests, 9 unhelpful gaps...

... of Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, 502. was the 2004 publication of Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? in Critical Inquiry, which, among other things, suggested that deniers of climate change had rendered social constructivism and deconstruction critically impotent by appro- priating and misusing some...

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.... The philosophical wing of science studies in the 1980s and 1990s, personified by Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway, developed an approach every bit as antifoundationalist as Rorty's, but more carefully guarded against accusations of mere social constructivism (in part, because of their focus...

..., 1981); Jan Golinski, Mak- versity Press, 2000), 58. ing Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Sci- ence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 79–102. Malinowski has sometimes been criticized for overemphasis on the local context, 172 thus ignoring...

... . and their Constructivism . The “way to God,” the 60...