The Flight from Science and Reason - Softcover

 
9780801856761: The Flight from Science and Reason

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The authors take on critics of science whose views range from moderate to extreme, from social constructivists to deconstructionists, from creationists and feminists to Afro-centrists. They discuss the rise of "alternative medicine" and radical environmentalism (here skewered as "ecosentimentalism"). They explain why the "uncertainty principle" does not work as a metaphor for ambiguity, and why "chaos theory" cannot be invoked without an understanding of mathematics. Throughout, they grapple with the paradox inherent in arguing with opponents who contend that reason itself, and thus logic, is suspect.

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Paul R. Gross, former director of the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, is University Professor of Life Sciences and director of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia. Norman Levitt is professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of 'Grassmannians and Gauss Maps in Piecewise-Linear Topology'. Martin W. Lewis is professor of geography at Duke University and the author of 'Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism.'

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