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Comparative Cultural Studies
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Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific discourse from the perspectives of rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratology, educational studies, discourse analysis, naturalized epistemology, and the cognitive sciences. The main objective of the volume is to explore how particular cognitive predispositions and cultural representations both shape and distort the public debate about scientific controversies, the teaching and learning of science, and the development of science itself. The theoretical background of the articles in the volume integrates C. P. Snow's concept of the two cultures (science and the humanities) and Jerome Bruner's confrontation between narrative and logico-scientific modes of thinking (i.e., the cognitive and the evolutionary approaches to human cognition). The intellectual trajectory of the volume is located in comparative cultural studies, a framework with paradigms of the empirical and systems approaches whereby attention is paid to the interrelationships between science and culture.
ISBN
9781557538215
Publication Date
Winter 2-15-2018
Publisher
Purdue University Press
City
West Lafayette
Keywords
social science, science, interdisciplinary, rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratology, educational studies, discourse analysis, naturalized epistemology, cognitive sciences, scientific controversies, C. P. Snow, Jerome Bruner
Disciplines
Comparative Literature | Critical and Cultural Studies | English Language and Literature | Rhetoric
Recommended Citation
Rutten, Kris; Blancke, Stefaan; and Soetaert, Ronald, "Perspectives on Science and Culture" (2018). Purdue University Press Book Previews. 6.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_previews/6
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