Perspectives on Science and Culture

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 logicoscientific modes of thinking (i.e., the cognitive and the evolutionary approaches to human cognition).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557537976
• ISBN13: 9781557537973
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"