Table of Contents

Introduction: Some Issues Concerning Relativism and Realism in Science.- Does the Sociology of Science Discredit Science?.- It’s All in the Day’s Work: A Study of the Ethnomethodology of Science.- The Strong Sociology of Knowledge Without Relativism.- Evolutionary Epistemology and Relativism.- Are All Theories Equally Good? A Dialogue.- Realism and Descriptivism.- On a Dogma Concerning Realism and Incommensurability.- Realism in the Social Sciences: Social Kinds and Social Laws.- The Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism.- Radical Pluralism — An Alternative to Realism, Anti-Realism and Relativism.- Notes on Contributors.- Index of Names.