Science Wars 

who are the combatants and why the combat ???
class debate for postgraduate course
Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Science
MSc in Science Communication
School of Communications
Dublin City University
Dr Helena Sheehan
 

The class on "science wars"  took the form of a radio debate, in which each person in the class  argued the position of one of the thinkers who have published in this series of polemics.   The debate was edited from 80 minutes to 40 minutes and broadcast on Dublin Weekend Radio  on 102.2 fm at 11am on Saturday 18 April and 25 April 1998 (in 2 parts) on the New Frontiers programme.   The 1999 science wars debate took place on 22 March 1999.

 

 
 
MSc students debating science wars on radio in 1998
 
 
(still friends after the science wars)
 

some of the books:
 

www  links to documents on Alan Sokal v Social Text :  
some of the players:

Alan Sokal   Meera Nanda   Gerald Holton   Paul Gross   Norman Levit
John Gillott   Carl Sagan   Richard Dawkins   Lewis Wolpert

Stanley Aronowitz   Andrew Ross   Sandra Harding   Donna Haraway
Hilary Rose   Robert Young   Dorothy Nelkin   Richard Levins

presenter & editor: Derek Mc Cormack

participants:  Aisling Barry, Chris Daniells, Connie Redden, Conor Walker, Eoghan O'Sullivan, John Thompson, Louise Burton, Louise Mc Gregor, Meg Thompson, Mary Quirke, Helena Sheehan
 
1999 science wars debate
1999 science and religion debate

E-mail:  helena.sheehan@dcu.ie