Thermodynamics 2.0 Program: Sessions and Abstracts

Mon - Wed, June 22 - June 24 , 2020 , Massachusetts, USA

Session T09: Human Life and Nature

10:45-11:45. Tuesday June 23, 2020

Title: Historical Attempts to Bridge the Two Cultures: Natural Science and Social Science

Presenter:

  • Libb Thims

(Institute of Human Thermodynamics, Chicago, USA )

Bio-sketch

Author of Human Chemistry (2007); curator of the EoHT.info; main expositor of the chemical thermodynamics model of the humanities, historical and modern.

Author(s):

  • Libb Thims

(Institute of Human Thermodynamics, Chicago, USA )

Abstract:T09.W182

Abstract

A short overview of recent historical attempts, in the last two centuries, to bridge the so-called natural sciences, e.g. physics and chemistry based knowledge, with the so-called social sciences, e.g. arts and humanities; the presentation being centered around Charles Snow’s 1959 two cultures division of the presumed highly-educated class of humans, between those who understand Clausius and those who understand Shakespeare..

 

 

Keywords: two cultures, bridge, natural science, social science