TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gross, Paul R.
AU  - Gross,Paul R
AU  - Levitt,N.
AU  - Lewis,Martin W
TI  - The Flight from science and reason
T2  - Annals of the New York Academy of sciences,
SN  - 1573310026
AV  - Q175 .F58 1996
U1  - 500 23
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York N.Y.
PB  - New York Academy of Sciences
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Women in science
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Public Opinion
KW  - trends
KW  - Religion and Science
KW  - Culture
KW  - Women
KW  - Environment
KW  - Mujeres en la ciencia
KW  - Ciencia
KW  - Aspectos sociales
KW  - Religión y ciencia
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - "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; Introductory remarks : medicine took an earlier flight; Henry Greenberg --; Imaginary gardens with real toads; Dudley R. Herschbach --; Conduct and misconduct in science; David Goodstein --; Mathematics as the stepchild of contemporary culture; Norman Levitt --; Concern for truth : what it means, why it matters; Susan Haack --; The propensity to believe; James E. Alcock --; Flights of fancy : science, reason, and common sense; Barry R. Gross --; Feelings and beliefs; Loren Fishman --; In praise of intolerance to charlatanism in academia; Mario Bunge --; Quantum philosophy : the flight from reason in science; Sheldon Goldstein --; Physics and common nonsense; Daniel Kleppner --; Science of chaos or chaos in science?; J. Bricmont --; "Sucking with vampires" : the medicine of unreason; Gerald Weissmann --; Antiscience trends in the rise of the "alternative medicine" movement; Wallace Sampson --; Constructivism in psychotherapy : truth and consequences; Barbara S. Held --; Radical environmental philosophy and the assault on reason; Martin W. Lewis --; Is environmental cancer a political disease?; Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter --; Old messages : ecofeminism and the alienation of young people from environmental activism; Rene Denfeld --; Towards a sober sociology of science; Susan Haack --; Wrestling with the social constructor; Noretta Koertge --; Voodoo sociology : recent developments in the sociology of science; Stephen Cole --; The allure of the hybrid : Bruno Latour and the search for a new grand theory; Oscar Kenshur --; Whatever happened to historical evidence?; Mary Lefkowitz --; Building bridges to Afrocentrism : a letter to my Egyptological colleagues; Ann Macy Roth --; State of the art/science in anthropology; Robin Fox --; Liberalism, public opinion, and their critics : some lessons for defending science; Simon Jackman --; Pathological social science : Carol Gilligan and the incredible shrinking girl; Christina Hoff Sommers --; Why feminist epistemology isn't; Janet Radcliffe Richards --; Feminist epistemology : stalking an un-dead horse; Noretta Koertge --; The science question in postcolonial feminism; Meera Nanda --; Are "feminist perspectives" in mathematics and science feminist?; Mary Beth Ruskai --; On sitting down to read King Lear once again : the textual deconstruction of Shakespeare; Paul A. Cantor --; Constructing literature : empiricism, romanticism, and textual theory; George Bornstein --; Freudian suspicion versus suspicion of Freud; Frederick Crews --; Ecosentimentalism : the summer dream beneath the tamarind tree; Gerald Weissmann --; Two sources of unreason in democratic society : the paranormal and religion; Paul Kurtz --; Creationism, ideology, and science; Eugenie C. Scott --; The flight from reason : the religious right; Langdon Gilkey --; Doubt, certainty, faith, and ideology; Oscar Kenshur --; Science, reason, and education; Henry Rosovsky --; Scientific literacy; James Trefil --; Science education and the sense of self; Gerald Holton --; Afrocentric pseudoscience : the miseducation of African Americans; Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano
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