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The issue whether or in which sense science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what Science tells us about the world determined unambigously by facts or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human conditon? "Sokal's hoax" added a new dimesion to this controversial debate which soon came to been known as "Science Wars". The focus of the present book is to review the broad range of philosophical positons on this issue, stretching from realism to relativism, to expound the epistemic merits of science and to address the central question: in which sense can science justifiably claim to provide a truthful protrait of reality? This book addresses everyone interested in the philosophy and history of sciences, and in particular in the interplay between social and natural sciences. TOC:Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism.- Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence.- Scientific Objectivity With a Human Face.- On Social Constructivist Accounts of the Natural Science.- Experimental Success and the Revelation of Reality: the Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism.- True is What is Considered True is True.- Realism and Biological Knowledge.- Objective Facts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs.- The Mote and the Beam.- Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority.- Neither Modernist Nor Postmodernist-A Third Way.- From Science Wars to Science Worries: Some Reflections on the Conquest of Reality.-Science Wars?Historical, Social, and Epistemological Aspects of the Sokal/Bricmont Debate