Why read The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox?

Book cover of The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities

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In his final book, Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.

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1 author picked The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Bernard Beckett

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I do enjoy a good argument, especially when it’s between highly articulate experts in their field. Gould is a fine science writer who always flew the flag for caution when it came to over-interpreting our findings. Here he makes the case for different ways of knowing, and as a committed philosophical pragmatist myself, in the style of William James, I’m all for his insistence that we avoid the lure of crass reductionism, no matter how smart and superior this might make us feel. Ever so important when it comes to thinking about the big issues like consciousness.

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