Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory by Christopher Norris

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  • 344pp
  • Sales Rank: 564,247

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  • ISBN-13: 9780631198659
  • Pub. Date: November 1997
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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  • Pub. Date: November 1997
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Format: Textbook Paperback, 344pp
  • Sales Rank: 564,247

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This book offers a vigorous and constructive challenge to relativism by examining a wide range of anti-realist theories, and in response offering a variety of arguments amounting to a strong defence of critical realism in the natural and social sciences.

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Christopher Norris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and an Associate Fellow of the Centre of Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. His work has been widely published in both British and American journals, and he is author of thirteen books to date, including Uncritical Theory: postmodernism, intellectuals and the Gulf War (1992), The Truth About Postmodernism (1993) and Truth and the Ethics of Criticism (1994).

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