From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Sun May 09 1999 - 15:17:01 MDT
In a message dated 99-05-09 17:11:37 EDT, jr@shasta.com (J. R. Molloy) wrote:
> Wilson's work on consilience represents a milestone in the unification of
> all the sciences, the social as well as the natural sciences. Highly
> recommended reading, and if any senior members of this list would like to
> open a thread on the subject, I'd joyfully engage it (as a self-evidently
> junior subscriber, of course).
You may want to take a look at a review of "Consilience" I've published in
Extropy Online:
http://www.extropy.org/eo/articles/gbcurrent.html
where I contrast Wilson's excellent book with Virginia Postrel's "The Future
and its Enemies"
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
Attorney ::: Vice President, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide
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"Civilization is protest against nature;
progress requires us to take control of evolution."
-- Thomas Huxley
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