Some reflections on science and the humanities

NOV 01, 1963

A philosopher, on looking at two familiar ways of seeking knowledge and truth, finds them generating the same kind of knowledge and ending with the same truth

DOI: 10.1063/1.3050604

Jerome Ashmore

Since the days of the Enlightenment, if not before, there has been a tendency among writers of all kinds to comment on the differences between science and the humanities. Recently the expression of that tendency acquired a new feature in the form of the suggestion that, instead of threatening the security of theological doctrine or of metaphysical concepts, science is threatening to divide what traditionally has been a cultural unity within the western world.

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References

1. G. Holton, Science, 131, 1187–1193, (1960).
2. C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, p. 19, (1959).
3. G. Whalley, Queen’s Quarterly, 68, 238, (1961).
4. F. Burkhardt, Science and the Humanities, p. 26, (1959).
5. R. J. Henle, Thought, 35, 512–536, (1960).

More about the authors

Jerome Ashmore, Case Institute of Technology.