The One Culture?

Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Part One: Positions
Philosophies
2. Does Science Studies Undermine Science? Wittgenstein, Turing, and Polanyi as Precursors for Science Studies and the Science Wars
Trevor Pinch
3. Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and Peace
Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal
4. Is a Science Peace Process Necessary?
Michael Lynch
Perspectives
5. Caught in the Crossfire? The Public’s Role in the Science Wars
Jane Gregory and Steve Miller
6. Life inside a Case Study
Peter Saulson
Origins
7. Conversing Seriously with Sociologists
N. David Mermin
8. How to be Antiscientific
Steven Shapin
Directions
9. Physics and History
Steven Weinberg
10. Science Studies as Epistemography
Peter Dear
11. From Social Construction to Questions for Research: The Promise of the Sociology of Science
Kenneth G. Wilson and Constance K. Barsky
12. A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Harry Collins
13. Awakening a Sleeping Giant?
Jay A. Labinger
Part Two: Commentaries
14. Remarks on Methodological Relativism and "Antiscience"
Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal
15. One More Round with Relativism
Harry Collins
16. Overdetermination and Contingency
Peter Dear
17. Reclaiming Responsibility
Jane Gregory
18. Split Personalities, or the Science Wars Within
Jay A. Labinger
19. Situated Knowledge and Common Enemies: Therapy for the Science Wars
Michael Lynch
20. Real Essences and Human Experience
David Mermin
21. It’s a Conversation!
Trevor Pinch
22. Confessions of a Believer
Peter R. Saulson
23. Barbarians at Which Gates?
Steven Shapin
24. Peace at Last?
Steven Weinberg
Part Three Rebuttals
25. Reply to Our Critics
Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal
26. Crown Jewels and Rough Diamonds: The Source of Science’s Authority
Harry Collins
27. Another Visit to Epistemography
Peter Dear
28. Let’s Not Get Too Agreeable
Jay A. Labinger
29. Causality, Grammar, and Working Philosophies: Some Final Comments
Michael Lynch
30. Readings and Misreadings
David Mermin
31. Peace for Whom and on Whose Terms?
Trevor Pinch
32. Pilgrims’ Progress
Peter Saulson
33. Historiographical Uses of Scientific Knowledge
Steven Weinberg
34. Beyond Social Construction
Kenneth G. Wilson and Constance K. Barsky
35. Conclusion
References
Contributors
Index