Authorizing Knowledge in Science and Anthropology |
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| Authors: | Associate Professor Joan H. Fujimura Professor Henry R. Luce |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.;Department of Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. |
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| Abstract: | An analogy exists between today's "defenders" of science in the "science/culture wars" and 19th-century "defenders" of euclidean geometry. Current critics have appointed themselves as arbiters of truth in a manner analogous to that of 19th-century mathematicians and theologians who argued against noneuclidean geometry that challenge Euclid's mathematically, philosophically, and theologically entrenched fifth postulate. The science wars then and now are not about science versus antiscience, objectivity versus subjectivity, but about authority in science: what kind of science should be practiced, and who gets to define it? |
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