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The Trouble With Science

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Harvard University Press, 1995 - Science - 213 pages

In The Trouble with Science, Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science"--our inability to grasp how it works, our suspiciousness of its successes--may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better able to cope with day-to-day social interaction than with the complexities of the external world.

  

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User Review  - Grace - Goodreads

I've only read 10% of the book and I can already tell it is going to be one of the most influential books I've ever read. Why didn't I read this when it first came out (and before I wrote my PhD thesis)? The guidance and context would have been invaluable. Read full review

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User Review  - Smcleish - Goodreads

Originally published on my blog here in May 1999. The title of Robin Dunbar's book leads one to expect some kind of attack on science; instead, it is actually a defence, his major criticisms of the ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
What is This Thing Called Science?
12
A Natural History of Science
34
The Roots of Science
58
Why is Science so Successful?
77
Unnatural Science
96
The Social Brain
114
Science Through the Lookingglass
134
The Open Society Revisited
154
IO Divided Loyalties
176
Bibliography
190
Index
201
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