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Science 9 July 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5425, p. 205
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5425.205
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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
What It's All About

A review by Barry Allen

The Social Construction of What?
Ian Hacking
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 271 pp. $29.95, £18.50. ISBN 0-674-81200-X.

Hacking's examination of philosophical sticking points between social constructionists and their critics is not intended to decide the science wars but to clearly explain what is at stake.
The author is in the Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada. E-mail: bgallen{at}mcmaster.ca

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