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Author:

Gould, Stephen Jay.

Title:

The hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox : mending the gap between science and the humanities / Stephen Jay Gould.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Three Rivers Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Science--Social aspects.
Science and state.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

9. Closing tale of addition to Adagia by Erasure of Erasmus. 1. Newton's light -- 2. Scientific "world-making" and critical braking -- 3. So noble an hecatombe : the weight of humanism -- 4. Mandate of Magister Medice : the threat of suppression -- [Pt.2.] From paradoxical ages of Bacon to sweet swiftness of light. 5. Dynasty of dichotomy -- 6. Reintegration in triumph maturity -- 7. Sweetness and light as tough and healing truth -- [Pt.3.] Saga of pluribus unum : the power and meaning of true Consilience. 8. Fusions of unum and the benefits of pluribus -- 9. False path of reductionism and the Consilience of equal regard -- Closing tale of addition to Adagia by Erasure of Erasmus.

Summary:

Stephen Jay Gould offers a study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other. Gould demonstrates that neither strategy can work alone, but that these seeming opposites can be conjoined into a common enterprise of tremendous unity and power. In building his case, Gould shows why the common assumption of an inescapable conflict between science and the humanities (in which he includes religion) is false, mounts a spirited rebuttal to the ideas that his intellectual rival E.O. Wilson set forth in his book Consilience, and explains why the pursuit of knowledge must always operate upon the bedrock of nature's randomness.

ISBN:

9781400051533
1400051533

LCCN:

2002007807

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)