Review: The Third Culture
Avis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsA sm"rgasbord for armchair intellectuals. Recalling C.P. Snow, Brockman declares the old ""two culture"" split to be dead. Time was when arts and humanities academics could live in blissful ignorance of the second law of thermodynamics while scoffing at scientists and engineers as no-nothing nerds. No more. According to Brockman (coeditor of How Things Are, p. 282, etc.), literary intellectuals are taking a back seat; their voice is muted by what Snow himself hoped would be spokesmen for a third culture. That culture has arrived, Brockman says, in the stylish writings of Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and others, whose books make the best-seller lists, apparently having created readers eager for their latest views on matter, humankind, the universe, and such avant-garde fields as artificial intelligence and complexity. To prove his point, Brockman has taped and edited his favorite authors, along with short takes in which other ""third culture"" heroes (only one woman included) comment on a particular doyen. (These are refreshingly frank, including ""I really don't understand X,"" or ""Murray has developed one of the best inventories of put-downs that exists"" -- Marvin Minsky on Murray Geli-Mann. For evolution Brockman taped George Williams, Gould, Richard Dawkins, Niles Eldredge, and Lynn Margulis, among others. For A.I./brain-mind studies he has included Minsky, Daniel C. Dennett, Nicholas Humphrey; for cosmology, Martin Rees, Alan Guth, Paul Davies, and Lee Smolin. He concludes with some of the high-stepping speculations of complexity thinkers nurtured by Gell-Mann. This is a taste of stimulating minds speaking frankly about what they're doing and how they arrived at where they're at. Because rival theories and friendly and not-so-friendly enemies abound in the pages, it is also an honest picture of science in the making.
Review: Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Avis d'utilisateur - Mike - GoodreadsBrockman is an interesting man and a good editor for this anthology. The premise of Third Culture is unique: taking its title and approach from CP Snow's famed essay "The Two Cultures", which ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Avis d'utilisateur - Jonathan El-Bizri - GoodreadsReally fascinating essays on the cutting edge of scientific understanding, each followed by criticism and analysis by experts in the field. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Avis d'utilisateur - Djiezes - GoodreadsIntro: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ Authors: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/who3c... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Avis d'utilisateur - Alex - Goodreadsthis book is an excellent summary / introduction for non-scientifically inclined friends to read science as if it's literature... and even tho i'm well versed in most of the authors, it's still a ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Avis d'utilisateur - Joshua Nomen-Mutatio - GoodreadsThis sounds pretty great. I'm very interested in the whole idea of synthesizing the humanities, the social sciences and natural sciences (which is essentially the idea behind "the third culture"). Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Avis d'utilisateur - Tycoon - GoodreadsDo you want to know scientists? Read this, you will learn other things to read. Also, Dawkins and Gould were very catty. Consulter l'avis complet
