An interesting debate between modernists and postmodernists emerged in the 1990s called the science wars. The debate highlighted the fact that—as has been popularized at least since C. P. Snow ...

he Science Wars—didn’t they blow over like the bird flu crisis and global cooling? In the 1990s, several books such as Paul Gross and Norman Levitt’s The Higher Superstition and Alan Sokal and Jean ...

Science and technology studies (STS), and their attempts to explain science by social constructs such as language and culture, have given sociologists of science new opportunities for teaching and ...