David F. Prindle
Auteur van Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution
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David F. Prindle is a professor in the Department of Government at University of Texas at Austin. He has published research in the areas of voting and parties, energy policy, the presidency, and the politics of the entertainment media.
Werken van David F. Prindle
The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought (2006) 5 exemplaren
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At the end of the book, I am not entirely certain whether the author believes the second proposition or not, which perhaps explains why he got the two apparently contradictory reviews on his book that he discusses. Since I am not sure what he means to say, it is a little hard to decide how well he said it, making this a difficult book to assign stars to. Actually, if I'm not sure what he's saying, I guess I can say that he didn't say it well. His discussion of how most scientists argued that science and politics should not and do not intertwine seems to suggest that he did agree with Gould on both points. But he himself provides examples of how scientists who disagreed vehemently with Gould's scientific ideas often had similar political views. So, if he intended to argue that politics generally affects individual scientific beliefs, he didn't make a good case.
So I would read this as a comment on Gould's thinking, which is after all its main purpose, but it is ambiguous, and perhaps ambivalent, about whether he was, in that regard, a typical scientist or an exception.… (meer)