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Science 28 March 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5871, p. 1763
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155967
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SCIENCE AND THE ARTS:
Another Approach to Consilience

Jay Labinger

Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2007. 256 pp. $24, C$32.95. ISBN 9780618620104.

Artscience
Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
by David Edwards
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 203 pp., $19.95, £12.95, €15. ISBN 9780674026254.
Many who dream of unifying scientific and humanistic thinking seem to hold a one-sided view of the resulting whole: that the study of topics in the arts and humanities should be informed by science. Lehrer and Edwards offer a range of examples that suggest the benefits from working in the other direction.
The reviewer is at the Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: jal{at}its.caltech.edu

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