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This book offers a vigorous and constructive challenge to relativism by examining a wide range of anti-realist theories, and in response offering a variety of arguments amounting to a strong defence of critical realism in the natural and social sciences.

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This book offers a vigorous and constructive challenge to the various forms of anti-realist and cultural-relativist thinking. By examining a wide range of anti-realist theories, the author is able to highlight the problems, including the ethical dilemmas, to which they give rise, and in response offer a variety of arguments amounting to a strong defence of critical realism in the natural and social sciences. These arguments are drawn from a wide range of sources such as theoretical physics, philosophical semantics, deconstruction and critical theory. This book will thus be of interest to both students and scholars in the fields of critical theory, philosophy and history of science, and epistemology, demonstrating as it does the incoherence of anti-realist doctrines.

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  • Title Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction and Critical Theory
  • Author Christopher Norris
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK & Cambridge, MA
  • Publication date 1997-10-31
  • ISBN 9780631198659 / 0631198652
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 6.06 x 0.78 in (22.89 x 15.39 x 1.98 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Science - Philosophy, Deconstruction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-4300
  • Dewey Decimal Code 501

About the author

Christopher Norris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and an Associate Fellow of the Centre of Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. His work has been widely published in both British and American journals, and he is author of thirteen books to date, including Uncritical Theory: postmodernism, intellectuals and the Gulf War (1992), The Truth About Postmodernism (1993) and Truth and the Ethics of Criticism (1994).
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