Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars
Description
What if something as seemingly academic as the so-called science wars were to determine how we live?This eye-opening book reveals how little we've understood about the ongoing pitched battles between the sciences and the humanities--and how much may be at stake. James Brown's starting point is C. P. Snow's famous book, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, which set the terms for the current debates. But that little book did much more than identify two new, opposing cultures, Brown contends: It also claimed that scientists are better qualified than nonscientists to solv...
ISBN(s)
0674013646, 9780674013643
