The one culture? : a conversation about science / edited by Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2001], ©2001.

xi, 329 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.

Does science studies undermine science? Wittgenstein, Turing, and Polanyi as precursors for science studies and the science wars / Trevor Pinch -- Science and sociology of science: beyond war and peace / Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal -- Is a science peace process necessary? / Michael Lynch -- Caught in the crossfire? The public's role in the science wars / Jane Gregory, Steve Miller -- Life inside a case study / Peter R. Saulson -- Conversing seriously with sociologists / N. David Mermin -- How to be antiscientific / Steven Shapin -- Physics and history / Steven Weinberg / Science studies as epistemography / Peter Dear -- From social construction to questions for research: the promise of the sociology of science / Kenneth G. Wilson, Constance K. Barsky -- A Martian sends a postcard home / Harry Collins -- Awakening a sleeping giant? / Jay A. Labinger -- Remarks on methodological relativism and "antiscience' / Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokat -- One more round with relativism / Harry Collins -- Overdetermination and contingency / Peter Dear -- Reclaiming responsibility / Jane Gregory -- Split personalities, or the science wars within / Jay A. Labinger -- Situated knowledge and common enemies: therapy for the science wars / Michael Lynch -- Real essences and human experience / N. David Mermin -- It's a conversation! / Trevor Pinch -- Confessions of a believer / Peter R. Saulson -- Barbarians at which gates? / Steven Shapin -- Peace at last? / Steven Weinberg -- Reply to our critics / Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal -- Crown jewels and rough diamonds: the source of science's authority / Harry Collins -- Another visit to epistemography / Peter Dear -- Let's not get too agreeable / Jay A. Labinger -- Causality, grammar, and working philosophies: some final comments / Michael Lynch -- Readings and misreadings / N. David Mermin -- Peace for whom and on whose terms? / Trevor Pinch -- Pilgrims' progress / Peter R. Saulson -- Historiographical uses of scientific knowledge / Steven Weinberg -- Beyond social construction / Kenneth G. Wilson, Constance K. Barsky.