Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning
Philip Ball Read as aPDF. Conflict or Consilience? The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but
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Meanings of Science
Can Science Be Unified? Oneness and Its Discontents
Lisa H. Sideris Read as a PDF. Deep within we long for unity because, at the most fundamental level, we are already one. We belong
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What is Scientific Truth—And Why Does it Keep Changing?
Lorraine Daston Read as a PDF. Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s? The SARS-COV-2 pandemic turned virologists
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Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
Iain McGilchrist Read as a PDF. In the lecture series given in Cambridge in 1951 that formed the basis of his book Science
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Science and the Idea of Progress
Peter Harrison Read as a PDF. The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the
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Science and the Healing of the World: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part Two
Tom McLeish in Conversation with Samuel Loncar Tom McLeish FRS, physicist and Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at
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Science Is a Long Story: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part One
Tom McLeish in Conversation with Samuel Loncar Tom McLeish FRS, physicist and Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at
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Why Einstein Wouldn’t Be Published Today: A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part Two
Part One of our conversation is available here.The full conversation is available as PDF. As part of our Meanings of Science in the
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Does Science Need History? A Conversation with Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston in Conversation with Samuel Loncar As part of our Meanings of Science in the Modern World project, I had the honor
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From Siberia to NASA: Confronting Sexism in Science
Philip Ball on A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton Space science is a long game. NASA’s Psyche
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