The Flight from science and reason /
Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis.
- New York N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 1996.
- xi, 593 pages ; 24 cm
- Annals of the New York Academy of sciences, v. 775 .
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 775. .
"This volume represents the proceedings of a conference entitled: 'The Flight From Science and Reason, ' which was sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and held in New York, New York, on May 31-June 2, 1995"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Imaginary gardens with real toads / Conduct and misconduct in science / Mathematics as the stepchild of contemporary culture / Concern for truth : what it means, why it matters / The propensity to believe / Flights of fancy : science, reason, and common sense / Feelings and beliefs / In praise of intolerance to charlatanism in academia / Quantum philosophy : the flight from reason in science / Physics and common nonsense / Science of chaos or chaos in science? / "Sucking with vampires" : the medicine of unreason / Antiscience trends in the rise of the "alternative medicine" movement / Constructivism in psychotherapy : truth and consequences / Radical environmental philosophy and the assault on reason / Is environmental cancer a political disease? / Old messages : ecofeminism and the alienation of young people from environmental activism / Towards a sober sociology of science / Wrestling with the social constructor / Voodoo sociology : recent developments in the sociology of science / The allure of the hybrid : Bruno Latour and the search for a new grand theory / Whatever happened to historical evidence? / Building bridges to Afrocentrism : a letter to my Egyptological colleagues / State of the art/science in anthropology / Liberalism, public opinion, and their critics : some lessons for defending science / Pathological social science : Carol Gilligan and the incredible shrinking girl / Why feminist epistemology isn't / Feminist epistemology : stalking an un-dead horse / The science question in postcolonial feminism / Are "feminist perspectives" in mathematics and science feminist? / On sitting down to read King Lear once again : the textual deconstruction of Shakespeare / Constructing literature : empiricism, romanticism, and textual theory / Freudian suspicion versus suspicion of Freud / Ecosentimentalism : the summer dream beneath the tamarind tree / Two sources of unreason in democratic society : the paranormal and religion / Creationism, ideology, and science / The flight from reason : the religious right / Doubt, certainty, faith, and ideology / Science, reason, and education / Scientific literacy / Science education and the sense of self / Afrocentric pseudoscience : the miseducation of African Americans / Henry Greenberg -- Dudley R. Herschbach -- David Goodstein -- Norman Levitt -- Susan Haack -- James E. Alcock -- Barry R. Gross -- Loren Fishman -- Mario Bunge -- Sheldon Goldstein -- Daniel Kleppner -- J. Bricmont -- Gerald Weissmann -- Wallace Sampson -- Barbara S. Held -- Martin W. Lewis -- Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter -- Rene Denfeld -- Susan Haack -- Noretta Koertge -- Stephen Cole -- Oscar Kenshur -- Mary Lefkowitz -- Ann Macy Roth -- Robin Fox -- Simon Jackman -- Christina Hoff Sommers -- Janet Radcliffe Richards -- Noretta Koertge -- Meera Nanda -- Mary Beth Ruskai -- Paul A. Cantor -- George Bornstein -- Frederick Crews -- Gerald Weissmann -- Paul Kurtz -- Eugenie C. Scott -- Langdon Gilkey -- Oscar Kenshur -- Henry Rosovsky -- James Trefil -- Gerald Holton -- Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano Introductory remarks : medicine took an earlier flight /
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