A cultural phenomenon of the 1980’s and 1990’s was a strident debate between what are often called “modernists” and “postmodernists” or “realists” and “anti-realists” (“social constructivists”). In the view of many, this battle of gods and giants can be boiled down to the question of whether science can bridge the supposed ontological gap between the human and nonhuman domains. In this battle, realists defended a “yes” answer and the anti-realist social constructivists defended a “no” answer. Over the last twenty years, the lines in the battle have been blurred in the typically philosophical manner of making finer and finer distinctions, with many efforts made to bridge this ontological chasm. My presentation summarizes some of these efforts with a focus on one of the original protagonists, the anthropologist/philosopher, Bruno Latour.
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Bruno Latour: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge - by Prof. Bruce Paternoster
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