Scientific Knowledge: A Reflection of Objective Reality or a Social Convention?

"What people take to be knowledge of nature varies greatly both between different societies and between different periods of history of any given society. In this sense, natural order is as variable as moral order . . ."

A distinguished scholar and lecturer in the sociology of science, Barry Barnes is on campus this semester as a George A. Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

In conjunction with: Department of Sociology; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; George A. Miller Endowment Committee; George A. Miller Committee