Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science.

Abstract

This lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences through a detailed and original account of science as an interpretive social practice.

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Analytic philosophyPoliticsContemporary philosophyPower (physics)EpistemologyGeneral interestPolitical philosophyPhilosophyPolitical scienceSociologySocial scienceLawQuantum mechanicsPhysics

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Year: 1990
Type: article
Volume: 99
Issue: 3
Pages: 474-474
Citations: 550
Access: Closed

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                                    Robert Ackermann, 
                                
                                    Joseph Rouse
                                
                            (1990). 
                            Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science.. 
                            The Philosophical Review
                            , 99
                            (3)
                            , 474-474.
                            https://doi.org/10.2307/2185364

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DOI: 10.2307/2185364