Artful Fiction and Adequate Discourse Irony and Social Theories of Science
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Vol. 22 (4) , 421-439
- https://doi.org/10.1177/004839319202200401
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.Keywords
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