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Science 31 October 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5646, p. 785
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088554
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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
Conciliation, Gould's Last Discourse

A review by Robert N. Proctor

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
by Stephen Jay Gould
Harmony Books, New York, 2003. 288 pp. $25.95, C$38.95. ISBN 0-609-60140-7. Jonathan Cape, London. £17.99. ISBN 0-224-06309-X

In what has become his final book, Gould argues for a conciliation between science and the humanities that recognizes the importance of both.
The reviewer is in the Department of History and the Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture Initiative, Pennsylvania State University, Weaver 312, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: rnp5{at}psu.edu

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