Perspectives on Science and Culture (eBook)

Stefaan Blancke, Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert (Herausgeber)

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2018
225 Seiten
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61249-522-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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).

Autor

Kris Rutten is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies of Ghent University and specifically within the research group Culture and Education. He teaches courses on cultural studies, culture and education, and qualitative research methods. Rutten's research interests are (new) rhetoric, cultural studies, literacy studies, educational theory, and the ethnographic turn in contemporary art.

Stefaan Blancke is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences of Ghent University, where he teaches philosophical anthropology. His research focuses on the diffusion of (pseudo-) scientific concepts in the history of science, science education, and the public understanding of science and on the philosophy of cultural evolution.

Ronald Soetaert is a professor emeritus in the Department of Educational Studies of Ghent University, where he taught courses on language and literature teaching, cultural studies, culture, media, and education. Soetaert's ongoing research focuses on education, culture, and media, with a special interest in the rhetorical and narrative turn.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Perspectives on Science and Culture, by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert

Part 1: Narrative and Rhetorical Perspectives

Chapter 1: Experiencing Nature through Cable Television, by David J. Tietge

Chapter 2: Steven Pinker and the Scientific Sublime: How a New Category of Experience Transformed Popular Science, by Alan G. Gross

Chapter 3: Architectonic Discourses and Their Extremisms, by Barry Brummett

Chapter 4: Science and the Idea of Culture, by Richard van Oort

Chapter 5: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Two Cultures in Literary Fiction, by Ronald Soetaert and Kris Rutten

Chapter 6: The Missing Link and Human Origins: Understanding an Evolutionary Icon, by Peter C. Kjærgaard

Part 2: Cognitive Perspectives

Chapter 7: Suspicion toward Science and the Role of Automatic Intuitions about Origins, by Elisa Järnefelt

Chapter 8: Bridging the Gap: From Intuitive to Scientific Reasoning—The Case of Evolution, by E. Margaret Evans

Chapter 9: Missing Links: How Cladograms Reify Common Evolutionary Misconceptions, by Andrew Shtulman

Chapter 10: Representations of the Origin of Species in Secular (France) and Religious (Morocco) Contexts, by Dominique Guillo

Part 3: Epistemological Perspectives

Chapter 11: Updating Evolutionary Epistemology, by Christophe Heintz

Chapter 12: Intuitions in Science Education and the Public Understanding of Science, by Stefaan Blancke, Koen B. Tanghe, and Johan Braeckman

Chapter 13: Vindicating Science—By Bringing It Down, by Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci

Part 4: Thematic Bibliography

Thematic Bibliography of Publications on Different Perspectives on Science and Culture, by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Comparative Cultural Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Comparative Cultural Studies
• Verlagsort: West Lafayette
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-61249-522-2 / 1612495222
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61249-522-4 / 9781612495224