Higher Superstition (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Current affairs; science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: African Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Race, Social issues, Science or scientists, Colleges or universities, Humanism, Mathematics or mathematicians, Biology or biologists, Activism
Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, a biologist and a mathematician respectively, are disgusted with doctrinaire attacks upon science generated by humanists and social scientists who are ignorant of both the workings and the content of the physical and biological sciences. They also believe that some political activists have been unfairly assailing science. In Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, a blatantly polemical counterattack, Gross and Levitt take on a diverse group of critics of science. Their targets include sociologists and historians of...
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