Mary Jo Nye and the Social Construction of Science
Congratulations to Mary Jo Nye (Emerita Horning Professor in the Humanities) on the publication of her long-awaited study of Michael Polanyi, the celebrated scientist, philosopher, and critic of positivism. The title is Michael Polanyi and his Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science (Chicago, 2011). The book has already gained widespread acclaim, including a […]
Finley challenges the science of Maximum Sustainable Yield
Congratulations to Carmel Finley, who has published a new book that calls into question one of the longest standing concepts in fisheries and marine science. The book, All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management (Chicago, 2011), is the first sustained historical treatment of MSY in the United […]
Is it Wrong to Analyze Culture with Google Books?
Oregon State University’s Horning Professor in the Humanities, Anita Guerrini, levels a critique at recent work in the “digital humanities.” She writes, “Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed ‘culturomics’ is not the same as being an […]
