This lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences through a detailed and original account of science as an interpretive social practice.

About the Author
Joseph Rouse is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University and the author of Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science, from Cornell.

Reviews
"Knowledge and Power is a work of quite wide interest in current discussions of philosophy and culture. It is a fine humanistic work that manifests real originality."-Ian Hacking, University of Toronto
"In a field currently beset by post-positives, anti-realists, and other philosophical downers, this book charts a hopeful course for the philosophy of science toward constructive social critique. In no other book will the reader be guided so gracefully and so purposefully through the thickets of continental social theory, the technicalities of analytic philosophy of science, and the provocative ethnographies of sociologists of science."-Steve Fuller, Executive Editor, Social Epistemology
"An important work. Very few philosophers of science have even tried to connect the scientific community's methods of inquiry with the social forces utilizing scientific knowledge. Rouse begins to chart essential new directions for political philosophy and for the social studies of science."-Edward Woodhouse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"This is the best, most elegant work I have seen that will bring readers up to speed on a variety of connected issues-realism, anti-realism, the relation between the natural and the human sciences-currently being debated in and beyond philosophy. It is also an original weaving together of Kuhn, Heidegger, feminist epistemology, and sociology of science which sets the stage for rethinking the philosophy of science."-David R. Hiley, Auburn University



Book Information
ISBN 9780801497131
Author Joseph Rouse
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Cornell University Press
Publisher Cornell University Press
Weight(grams) 454g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm