How science really works
As a young biology student, Joshua Rothman discovered that science “was two-faced: simultaneously thrilling and tedious, all-encompassing and narrow. And yet this was clearly an asset, not a flaw”. Now a writer and editor, Rothman reviews a new book by philosopher Michael Strevens that aims to identify the special something that drives science’s countless successes. The practice of science “channels hope, anger, envy, ambition, resentment—all the fires fuming in the human heart—to one end,” argues Strevens. “The production of empirical evidence.”
The New Yorker | 15 min read
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