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The Song Sparrow And The Child: Claims Of Science And Humanity, Joseph Vining
The Song Sparrow And The Child: Claims Of Science And Humanity, Joseph Vining
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For centuries public claims on behalf of science have been made about our nature and the nature of the world as a whole. Over the twentieth century such claims on behalf of science have grown deeper and stronger. More and more they are total claims, cosmological in the largest sense, and they have evoked opposition equally deep and strong.
There is the scientist in all of us. There is, too, the lawyer and law in all of us, which we realize the moment we serve as a witness or citizen juror. This book explores what the legal mind and ear …
On The Future Of Total Theory: Science, Antiscience, And Human Candor, Joseph Vining
On The Future Of Total Theory: Science, Antiscience, And Human Candor, Joseph Vining
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Since we will be talking about science and antiscience, let me begin by recalling the work of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin.
Erasmus was a naturalist like his grandson. He was distinguished in his time and is well known still in his own right. But he wrote scientific works in verse, even what might be called poems. One of them was The Botanic Garden, and the best known and most effective part of it was entitled The Loves of the Plants. It was full of imagery from the classics and from biology, full of metaphor and play. Our noticing …