Preface ..................................................... xi
Part I: The Social Text Affair
1 The parody, annotated ........................................ 5
2 Transgressing the boundaries: An afterword .................. 93
3 Truth, reason, objectivity, and the Left ................... 105
4 Science studies: Less than meets the eye ................... 115
5 What the Social Text affair does and does not prove ........ 149
Part II: Science and Philosophy
6 Cognitive relativism in the philosophy of science .......... 171
7 Defense of a modest scientific realism ..................... 229
Part III: Science and Culture
8 Pseudoscience and postmodernism: Antagonists or fellow-
travelers? ................................................. 263
9 Religion, politics and survival ............................ 371
10 Epilogue: Epistemology and ethics .......................... 447
Index ...................................................... 461
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