Science and Pseudoscience : A Conversation with Michael Gordin.
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. This thought-provoking, extensive conversation examines the strange case of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the bestselling...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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[Toronto] :
Open Agenda Publishing,
[2020]
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| Series: | Ideas Roadshow conversations.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv22jnqj7 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- The Conversation
- I. A Counterculture Hero
- II. An Ideal Case
- III. The Lysenko Lesson
- IV. A Freudian Cosmology
- V. Enter Einstein
- VI. Responses and Reactions
- VII. Digging In
- VIII. Science vs. Pseudoscience
- IX. Fringe Benefits
- X. Learning From History
- XI. Anthropic Digression
- XII. Better Science?
- Continuing the Conversation