The Flight from Science and Reason (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573310034 ISBN 13: 9781573310031

Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences, 1996

Synopsis

Forty-two essays responding to the thesis that the American academic community is turning away from the Enlightenment ideals of rationalism as the 20th century closes in on the millennium. The papers diverge widely from this central thematic hub delving into subjects as varied as the public image of science, the meaning of truth and reason, the foundations of physics, health issues, environmental sciences, social theories of science, the history and politics of social science, feminism, humanities, religion, and education. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

Book Description

The authors of Higher Superstition and others take on critics of science from social constructivists to deconstructionists, from creationists and feminists to Afro-centrists.

About the Author

Paul R. Gross, former director of the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, is University Professor of Life Sciences and director of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia. Norman Levitt is professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of Grassmannians and Gauss Maps in Piecewise-Linear Topology. Martin W. Lewis is professor of geography at Duke University and the author of Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism.

Edition details

• Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573310034
• ISBN 13: 9781573310031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Gross Paul R., Levitt Norman, Lewis Martin W.