New York Academy of Sciences
Edition Details: Edited by Paul R. Gross, Levitt, Norman, and Lewis, Martin W..
Physical Details: xi + 593 pp.; notes; index
Description Contents: Herschbach, Dudley R.: Imaginary gardens with real toads. Goodstein, David: Conduct and misconduct in science. Levitt, Norman: Mathematics as the stepchild of contemporary culture. Haack, Susan: Concern for truth: What it means, why it matters. Alcock, James E.: The propensity to believe. Gross, Barry R.: Flights of fancy: Science, reason, and common sense. Fishman, Loren: Feelings and beliefs. Bunge, Mario: In praise of intolerance to charlatanism in academia. Goldstein, Sheldon: Quantum philosophy: The flight from reason in science. Kleppner, Daniel: Physics and common nonsense. Bricmont, J.: Science of chaos or chaos in science? Weissmann, Gerald: “Sucking with vampires”: The medicine of unreason. Sampson, Wallace: Antiscience trends in the rise of the “alternative medicine” movement. Held, Barbara S.: Constructivism in psychotherapy: Truth and consequences. Lewis, Martin W.: Radical environmental philosophy and the assault on reason. Rothman, Stanley, Lichter, S. Robert: Is environmental cancer a political disease? Denfeld, Rene: Old messages: Ecofeminism and the alienation of young people from environmental activism. Haack, Susan: Towards a sober sociology of science. Koertge, Noretta: Wrestling with the social constructor. Cole, Stephen: Voodoo sociology: Recent developments in sociology of science. Kenshur, Oscar: The allure of the hybrid: Bruno Latour and the search for a new grand theory. Lefkowitz, Mary: Whatever happened to historical evidence? Roth, Ann Macy: Building bridges to afrocentrism: A letter to my egyptological colleagues. Fox, Robin: State of the art/science in anthropology. Jackman, Simon: Liberalism, public opinion, and their critics: Some lessons for defending science. Sommers, Christina Hoff: Pathological social science: Carol Gilligan and the incredible shrinking girl. Richards, Janet Radcliffe: Why feminist epistemology isn't. Koertge, Noretta: Feminist epistemology: Stalking an un-dead horse. Nanda, Meera: The science question in postcolonial feminism. Ruskai, Mary Beth: Are “feminist perspectives” in mathematics and science feminist? Cantor, Paul A.: On sitting down to read King Lear once again: The textual deconstruction of Shakespeare. Bornstein, George: Constructing literature: Empiricism, romanticism, and textual theory. Crews, Frederick: Freudian suspicion versus suspicion of Freud. Weissmann, Gerald: Ecosentimentalism: The summer dream beneath the Tamarind tree. Kurtz, Paul: Two sources of unreason in democratic society: The paranormal and religion. Scott, Eugenie C.: Creationism, ideology, and science. Langdon Gilkey: The flight from reason: The religious right. Kenshur, Oscar: Doubt, certainty, faith, and ideology. Rosovsky, Henry: Science, reason, and education. Trefil, James: Scientific literacy. Holton, Gerald: Science education and the sense of self. Ortiz De Montellano, Bernard R.: Afrocentric pseudoscience: The miseducation of African Americans.
Review Forman, P. (1997) Review of "The flight from science and reason". Science (pp. 750-52).
Review Kleinman, D.L. (1999) Review of "The flight from science and reason". Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (pp. 101-8).
Review Good, R. (1997) Review of "The flight from science and reason". Science and Education (pp. 529-32).
Review Wise, M.N. (1997) Review of "The flight from science and reason". American Scientist (pp. 276-78).
Review Gregory, F. (1997) Review of "The flight from science and reason". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 312-15).
Review Dhombres, J. (1997) Review of "The flight from science and reason". Sciences et Techniques en Perspective (pp. 435-46).
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