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
Bio-sketch
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