Perspectives on Science and Culture

Authors

Kris Rutten
Stefaan Blancke
Ronald Soetaert

Files

Series

Comparative Cultural Studies

Page Count

308

Language

English

Description

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).

ISBN

9781557538215

Publication Date

Winter 2-15-2018

Publisher

Purdue University Press

City

West Lafayette

Keywords

science, culture, scientific discourse, rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratology, educational studies, discourse analysis, naturalized epistemology, cognitive sciences

Disciplines

Comparative Literature

Comments

This book is made available available Open Access (CC-BY-NC) thanks to the support of libraries working together as part of the Knowledge Unlatched collaborative, www.knowledgeunlatched.org.

Recommended Citation

Rutten, Kris, Blancke, Stefaan, and Soetaert, Ronald. Perspectives on Science and Culture (2018). Purdue University Press. (Knowledge Unlatched Open Access Edition.)