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Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America

New Books in the History of Science

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The Critique of Science in the Middle of the 20th Century

The critique of science comes from just about everywhere, you imagine a political spectrum if you imagine a theological spectrum. You can find people with just about every set of commitments making an argument like this and they often sound remarkably similar. What was it that sustained our view of ourselves as moral actors, as having free will? These are some of the biggest themes in the middle of the 20th century; not just material to many manipulated by totalitarian or by social engineers,.

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