The Future of the Sciences and Humanities : Four Analytical Essays and a Critical Debate on the Future of Scholastic Endeavor /
The arts and sciences have evolved primarily through specialization and broadening of scope. Stepping outside of one's established discipline, however, involves a danger of "shallowness," even if the primary challenge was a "deep" integration problem. All too often, current...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2002]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Table of contents
- 1. The Sciences and Arts Debate. A review and some conclusions
- 2. Historical and Structural Approaches in the Natural and Human Sciences
- Discussion: The Role of Laws and Contingency in History
- 3. Science and Society in Flux
- Discussion: Does A New Kind of Science Require a New Kind of Scholar or a New Kind of University?
- 4. Science for the 21st Century
- Discussion: Redrawing Disciplinary Boundaries - but to What Degree?
- 5. Science and Democracy
- Science and Democracy: a difficult relationship: 'An enlightened and elitist essay on an unresolvable problem'
- 6. Epilogue
- 7. Appendix