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Artful fiction and adequate discourse irony and social theories of science
Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (4):421-439 (1992)
Abstract
This essay argues that recent reflexively oriented critiques of social studies of science, especially those of Steve Woolgar, present a problematic version of instrumental irony. Woolgar's own view is presented as instrumental and his antipathy to theorizing is opposed by arguing for the need to adopt a privileged position in order to carry out his recommended refusal of objectivist discourse.My notes
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