Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The year 2009 marked the 50 th anniversary of C. P Snow' "Two Cultures " address at Cambridge University.The premise of his Rede Lecture is fairly well known: Scientists and engineers think one way and scholars in the humanities think another and not only will the twain not meet, they don't want to.They might as well be on separate planets.(www. Telegraph.co.uk.May, 2009) Snow's address triggered a thunderous defensive response from F. R. Leavis one of Britain's old lions in the humanities.Well many people think things have gotten better since then.The year 1977 saw the beginning of the INTERFACE Conference movement at Southern technical Institute in Georgia which was to last some twenty years.There is the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), which publishes TECHNOLOGY and CULTURE and holds an annual conference.1978 saw the birth of the still extant Humanities and Technology Association.So thing are better, no? Well maybe not so much.
Author: Amos Joseph St. Germain
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4409109310