Publisher's Synopsis
The end of the 20th century has seen a turning away from the Enlightenment ideals of rationalism, most distressingly by the American academic community itself. This book probes the impulse to unreason from such unlikely quarters as biomedical science, mathematics, and ecology and takes a critical look at other epistemologic frameworks advanced by those taking up the cudgels against science.;Papers are included by such scholars as Bogdan Denitch, Barry Gross, Simon Jackman, Paul Kurtz, Gerald Holton, James Alcock, Langdon Gilkey, Susan Haack, Mario Bunge, Stephen Cole, Noretta Koertge, Wendy Kaminer, Oscar Kenshur, Mary Lefkowitz, James Trefil, Loren Fishman, Wallace Sampson, Gerald Weissmann, Rene Denfield, Martin W. Lewis, Stanley Rothman, Sheldon Goldstein, Daniel Kleppner, Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, Henry Rosovsky, Eugenie C. Scott, Dudley Herschbach, Robin Fox, Christina Hoff Sommers, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Felix Browder, George Bornstein, Paul Cantor, Oscar Kenshur and Frederick Crews.
