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The Psyche => Science and Psychology => Topic started by: Matt Koeske on August 30, 2013, 01:48:13 PM

Title: Science is Not Your Enemy by Steven Pinker
Post by: Matt Koeske on August 30, 2013, 01:48:13 PM

An Article in New Republic by Steven Pinker:

Science Is Not Your Enemy: An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-humanities)

Pinker attempts to make a plea for not-demonizing or rejecting science in the humanities.  Coherent and interesting.  I wish Jungians could be moved by such pleas, but I doubt they would identify.

Also interesting as a follow up to this article is part of a conversation from 1999 on Edge.org between Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins:

IS SCIENCE KILLING THE SOUL? (http://www.edge.org/conversation/is-science-killing-the-soul)