Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It

Explore the history of competing conceptions of scientific knowledge with a noted professor from Lehigh University.

• By This Professor
• 01: Knowledge and Truth Are Age-Old Problems
• 02: Competing Visions of the Scientific Method
• 03: Galileo, the Catholic Church, and Truth
• 04: Isaac Newton's Theory of the Universe
• 05: Science vs. Philosophy in the 17th Century
• 06: Locke, Hume, and the Path to Skepticism
• 07: Kant Restores Certainty
• 08: Science, Society, and the Age of Reason
• 09: Science Comes of Age in the 19th Century
• 10: Theories Need Not Explain
• 11: Knowledge As a Product of the Active Mind
• 12: Trading Reality for Experience
• 13: Scientific Truth in the Early 20th Century
• 14: Two New Theories of Scientific Knowledge
• 15: Einstein and Bohr Redefine Reality
• 16: Truth, Ideology, and Thought Collectives
• 17: Kuhn's Revolutionary Image of Science
• 18: Challenging Mainstream Science from Within
• 19: Objectivity Under Attack
• 20: Scientific Knowledge as Social Construct
• 21: New Definitions of Objectivity
• 22: Science Wars of the Late 20th Century
• 23: Intelligent Design and the Scope of Science
• 24: Truth, History, and Citizenship