A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most ph...(展开全部)

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most ph...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 布鲁诺•拉图尔，法国当代著名科学哲学家、人类学家和社会学家，行动者网络理论创立者之一，科学技术论（Science and Technology Studies）学界的重要代表人物。他先后任教于巴黎高等矿业学校、巴黎政治学院。主要著作有《实验室生活：科学事实的建构过程》（1979，与伍尔加合著）、《细菌：战争与和平》（1984）、《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》（1987）、《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》（1991）、《阿哈米斯或对技术的爱》（1992）、《潘多拉的希望：科学论中的实在》（1999）、《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》（1999）、《重组社会：行动者网络理论导论》（2005）、《实存模式探究：现代人的人类学》（2013）等。 -译者简介- 史晨，哲学博士，南京大学哲学系助理研究员，主要研究方向为科技哲学...(展开全部)

Fifteen years into his Papacy, and on the eve of the third millennium, Pope John Paul II goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about pain, suffering, and evil; about "salvation"; and about the relationship of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith. With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is we...(展开全部)

Fifteen years into his Papacy, and on the eve of the third millennium, Pope John Paul II goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about pain, suffering, and evil; about "salvation"; and about the relationship of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith. With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is we...(展开全部)

This treatise is a look at how social reality is constructed from sense impressions - at how, for example, a "five-pound note" is constructed, with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper that is seen and touched.

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.

In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle argues that there are two kinds of facts--some that are independent of human observers, and some that require human agreement.

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through whic...(展开全部)