Ian Hacking, writing against the 'Science Wars' tackes the readical claims of both sides and formulates a means of evaluating the positivist and the constructivist quotien of phenomenon. He does so by posting three sets of bintnres that break aspects of the constructivist and positivit claim down into differeing elements.the three are: contingency or determinism, nominalism or realism, and external or internal explanations of stability.
Source
Hacking, Ian, and Jan Hacking. The social construction of what?. Harvard university press, 1999.
Language
English
Cite as
Ian Hacking, "The Social Construction of What ? ", contributed by Parikshith Shashikumar, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 28 February 2019, accessed 26 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/social-construction-what
Critical Commentary
Ian Hacking, writing against the 'Science Wars' tackes the readical claims of both sides and formulates a means of evaluating the positivist and the constructivist quotien of phenomenon. He does so by posting three sets of bintnres that break aspects of the constructivist and positivit claim down into differeing elements.the three are: contingency or determinism, nominalism or realism, and external or internal explanations of stability.