The Three Cultures Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century |
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| Author:
| Kagan, Jerome |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-57663-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital download and online |
| List Price: | USD $165.00 |
Book Description:
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With an eye to C. P. Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture, 'The Two Cultures,' Jerome Kagan examines the basic goals, vocabulary, and assumptions of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. A major conclusion is that each of the three cultures makes a contribution to our understanding of human nature and its variation and that an orthodox defense of a strict biological determinism is not consistent with the evidence.
With an eye to C. P. Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture, 'The Two Cultures,' Jerome Kagan examines the basic goals, vocabulary, and assumptions of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. A major conclusion is that each of the three cultures makes a contribution to our understanding of human nature and its variation and that an orthodox defense of a strict biological determinism is not consistent with the evidence.