The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox

Infobox Book
name = Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox
author = Stephen Jay Gould
country = United States
language = English
subject = Science
genre = Non-fiction
publisher = Harmony Books
release_date = 2003
pages =
isbn = ISBN 978-0-609-60140-2

"The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox" is Stephen Jay Gould's posthumous volume exploring the historical conflict and division between the sciences and the humanities.

Contents

    • A Note to the Reader
    • Preface
      1. The Right and Rights of a separating Spring
        1. Newton's Light
        2. Scientific "World-Making" and Critical Braking
        3. So Noble an Hecatombe: The Weight of Humanism
        4. The Mandate of Magister Medice: The Threat of Suppress
      2. From Paradoxical Ages of Bacon to Swift Sweetness and Light
        1. The Dynasty of Dichotomy
        2. Reintegration in Triumphant Maturity
        3. Sweetness in Light Tough and Healing Truth
      3. A Saga of "Pluribus" and "Unum": The Power and Meaning of True Consilience
        1. The Fusions of "Unum" and the Benefits of "Pluribus"
        2. The False Path of Reductionism and the Consilience of Equal Regard
    • Epilogue: A Closing Tale of Edition to "Adagia" by Erasure of Erasmus
    • Index

Reviews

* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_6_112/ai_105371468/print The Mismeasure of science] - by Michael Ruse, "Natural History"
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19898-2003Apr3?language=printer Book review] by Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post", April 6, 2003, Page BW15
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E0DE1639F936A25755C0A9659C8B63 Books in brief] by Christine Kenneally, "The New York Times", June 15, 2003


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