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Unity of Knowledge: The Convergence of Natural and Human Science (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 935)

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Title: Unity of Knowledge: The Convergence of Natural and Human Science (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 935)
by Antonio R. Damasio, Anne Harrington, Jerome Kagan, Bruce S. McEwen, Henry Moss, Rashid Shaikh
ISBN: 1-57331-311-4
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Pub. Date: March, 2001
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $115.00
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Rating: 5
Summary: Varied and productive exchange of ideas
Comment: This book follows the contents of a cross-disciplinary conference held at the NY Acadamy of sciences. It starts off with a keynote by E.O.Wilson, on his concept of consilience, which could have signalled sending the event straight in the direction of hardline sociobiology.

But the most interesting thing about this book is that it dares to reject both the hardline reductionist views AND the hardline social constructionists, and seriously discuss the are in between these extremes, with participants who come from BOTH "bottom-up" and "top-down" types of scientific disciplines.

It's obviously important to point out factual errors in scientific texts, but I for one has not been too pleased about the hardline stance of the likes of Gross&Levitt, largely because it can serve to prevent necessary respectful dialogue across the nature/nurture divide. The "unity" question is far from solved, although, as one co-author also states, most individual disciplines believe they have solved it. One of the great strengths of this piece of work is that it discusses several of these existing models in parallell.

This book is not an easy read, although it discusses the topics at a very high level of abstraction and avoids the techincal details studied by the specialists of the individual fields, but it is really fascinating and well worth the effort. There are sometimes surprising matches, but also surprising mismatches, in the actual research results arrived at through natural science and social science based approaches. This is exactly the kind of broadening of our horizons which I associate all good science with, and this text does address all scientists. I warmly recommend it to everyone who is interested in science, both social and natural.

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