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Philosophy, sociology and religion

Philosophy, sociology and religion

What’s wrong with relativism?

01 Apr 1998

Physicists have criticized sociologists of science for the way that they analyse science. Harry Collins - one of their victims - defends the sociology of scientific knowledge

In his article last year, the Belgian physicist Jean Bricmont separated out some of the distin

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Harry Collins is head of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science at the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
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