The Social Construction of What? [Audiobook] download free by Ian Hacking
- Listen audiobook: The Social Construction of What?
- Author: Ian Hacking
- Release date: 2011/11/7
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780674004122
- Rating: 9.74 of 10
- Votes: 99
- Review by: Haylee Ritter
- Review rating: 8.91 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/25
- Duration: 3H22M36S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WAV, MP3, MPEG4 (compression TAR.XZ, ALZ, ZIP, CAB, RAR, JAR, XZ)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M10S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality.Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse-very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the 'culture wars' in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Theory, Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge, History Of Western Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Science, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Social & Political Philosophy
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 29.57 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x16.51mm
- Weight: 345g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass, United States
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