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<p>"... are dinosaurs social constructs? Do we really know anything about dinosaurs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer."</p> <p>At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens the authority of science and rejects science’s claims to objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry. Drawing Out Leviathan examines this argument in the light of some major debates about dinosaurs: the case of the wrong-headed dinosaur, the dinosaur "heresies" of the 1970s, and the debate over the extinction of dinosaurs.</p> <p>Keith Parsons claims that these debates, though lively and sometimes rancorous, show that evidence and logic, not arbitrary "rules of the game," remained vitally important, even when the debates were at their nastiest. They sho

Who reads Drawing Out Leviathan : Dinosaurs and the Science Wars?

Author

Parsons, Keith M.

Publisher

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253339379

Category

science

Subjects

Nature, Mathematics, Science

Rating

3.6 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14