"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