... 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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... 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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... . Bloor David . Knowledge and Human Interests . 2nd ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1991. First published 1976 . Boghossian Paul . Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism . New York : Oxford University Press , 2006 . Brooks Rodney...

... Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway. In these three figures Gaskill finds an approach “every bit as antifoundationalist as Rorty's, but more carefully guarded against accusations of mere social constructivism.” 8 That these recent developments in science studies go beyond what Rorty offered...

... 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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..., 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 on scientific practices). For these thinkers, metaphysics...

..., 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...

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... are signals, counters. They are not immortal (SP 419). Sally Haslanger explains that, for exponents of this instrumental approach (which she terms discursive constructivism a linguistic object is the way it is, to some substantial extent, because of what is attributed (and/or self- attributed) to it. 32...

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