Philipp Frank (1884–1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose last book, The Humanistic Background of S
The human sciences in the English-speaking world have been in a state of crisis since the Second World War. The battle between champions of hard-core scientific
The human sciences—including psychology, anthropology, and social theory—are widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century. This first full-le
In this classic work, the foremost historian of science in our time, George Sarton, sums up his reflections on the role of science and of the humanities in our
Providing a capstone to Philip Selznick's influential body of scholarly work, A Humanist Science insightfully brings to light the value-centered nature of the s