 | Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars by James Robert Brown
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $5.57 5 STARS -- see my review) Great new intro to "The Science Wars," showing how the postmodern critique of scientific knowledge is wrong. Inspired by Sokal.
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 | Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.64 Sokal exposes the French postmodern intellectuals as frauds when it comes to their critique of science -- they don't know their science! Hilarious. Includes Sokal's original "Social Text" hoax.
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 | The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by The Editors of Lingua Franca
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $7.60 This collection includes Sokal's piece revealing his hoax on "Social Text", as well as responses supporting Sokal and statements from the hoaxed pomos and their supporters.
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 | Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays by Susan Haack
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $5.81 Haack calmly argues for science. She patiently shows how silly Sandra Harding is to say there is such a thing as a feminist epistemology.
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 | The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
Buy new: $28.75 / Used from: $7.09 Eagleton is a Marxist literature professor, and his critique of postmodernism is witty and relentless. A good read for those who lump marxists and pomos together!
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 | Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $13.90 This book was the first major response by science to the postmodern critique, and it started the Science Wars! Sokal's hoax was inspired by this book.
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 | Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries by Steven Weinberg
Buy new: $27.50 / Used from: $3.12 3 STARS -- see my review) A so-so collection of essays, but several are outstanding. Beware, though, that most do not adress the "cultural adversaries" of science the title promises.
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