Some practical suggestions for teaching science in the liberal arts.
At the undergraduate level, science is held at a distance from the liberal arts by common agreement among professors from both sides of a wall erected for them by the Enlightenment some centuries ago. There is today no intellectual argument put forth for maintaining the wall; the arguments in its defense are largely cultural and political and therefore in the final analysis fiscal, if not venal. Here are some concrete suggestions for how that wall might be brought down.
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Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University, 749 Fairchild Bldg., Mailcode 2419, New York, NY 10027, USA. pollack@columbia.edu
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