A Challenge to Social Constructivism about Science

Ethos: Dialogues in Philosophy and Social Sciences 6 (2):150-156 (2013)
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This paper presents a challenge to the coherence of social constructivism about science. It introduces an objection according to which social constructivism appeals to the authority of science regarding the nature of reality and so cannot coherently deny that authority. The challenge is how to avoid this incoherence.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
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The social construction of what?Ian Hacking - 1999 - Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Realism and Independence.C. S. Jenkins - 2005 - American Philosophical Quarterly 42 (3):199 - 209.

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