The Two Cultures Today: Crisis in Knowledge Translation – FCPP
July 13, 2019
We are nearly twenty years into the 21st century, and we have not overcome what C. P. Snow called the conflict of Two Cultures—the culture of science and the culture of the humanities. Speaking two different languages, these cultures are unable to reach understanding.
The clash between the two groups originally emerged as an academic disagreement—with scientists emphasizing the natural order and parsimonious edifice of the physical world and humanists rejecting scientific explanations and aspiring for higher existential complexities. Each group considered itself to be intellectually superior to the other.
But how does this conflict manifest itself today?
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