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The Two Cultures in Cambridge, 1939 The Two Cultures in Cambridge, 1939
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From the Two Cultures to the Science Wars From the Two Cultures to the Science Wars
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The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
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What's at Stake in Undermining? What's at Stake in Undermining?
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Flip-Flop Thinking about Science Flip-Flop Thinking about Science
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The Expertise Model The Expertise Model
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2 Does Science Studies Undermine Science? Wittgenstein, Turing, and Polanyi as Precursors for Science Studies and the Science Wars
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Published:June 2001
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The “science wars” refers to a debate raging within the academy and without over the status of fields like science and technology studies and cultural studies of science and technology. The debate has largely been initiated by natural scientists who have written books and made public statements critical of science studies and what they take to be some of its central ideas. The idea of the two cultures was made famous by C. P. Snow in the 1950s. It has come to refer to the separate self-contained cultures of the humanities and of the natural sciences. The two cultures were held to be largely ignorant of each other. What is perhaps surprising is why the two cultures have been able to coexist peacefully for so long. Aside from one or two skirmishes, such as that between Wittgenstein and Turing, the science wars are more the exception than the rule. It is important to note that radical disjunctions in our cultural sensibilities and practices need not necessarily lead to clashes. As long as each culture can flourish, receive ample material resources and symbolic legitimation, there need be little reason for dissent.
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