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"One of the critical problems, not just in the history of science but in the philosophy and sociology of science, is the extent to which scientific facts are socially constructed rather than discovered."
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Stephen G. Brush
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Stephen George Brush is an American historian of science known particularly for his work on statistical mechanics and geophysics. He was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1968 to 2007. His research resulted in hundreds of journal articles and over a dozen books, one book of which, The Kind of Motion We Call Heat, won the 1977 Pfizer Award of the History of Science Societ
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"The current fashion is to stress the social construction of scientific theories and concepts, and to deny that scientists are actually discovering the truth about the world, or that their efforts to do so have any moral or epistemological superiority to those of pseudoscientists, humanists, and theologians."
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