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...third group attacks sociobiology as scientism. They believe that Wilson has overextended the powers of science into areas where it has no business treading. They hold that human behavior and culture can never be reduced to biological terms, and that Wilson's attempt is impotent because culture must be approached at a different level with different principles and models. Value systems will never be fashioned by reconstructing the evolution of the mind or defining the neurochemical responses of the brain...
...past three weeks, TIME has been examining America's rising discontent with entrenched intellectual ideas: liberalism, rationalism and scientism. In previous articles, TIME'S Behavior, Religion and Education sections discussed how this trend has affected their domains. This week the Science section considers the repercussions for science and technology. It finds a deepening disillusionment with both, as well as a new view among some scientists that there should be room in their discipline for the nonobjective, mystical and even irrational...
Most scientists believe that a swelling chorus of anti-scientism could jeopardize solutions to the technological problems that so distress Roszak and other critics. "We have created the kind of world we cannot reverse," says M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, a presidential science adviser in the Kennedy Administration. "Too many people are too dependent on technology for everything from agriculture to distribution of goods...
This is the third of a four-part series in which TIME examines what may be the beginning of a pendulum swing away from liberalism, rationalism and scientism. In the first part of the series, TIME'S Behavior section discussed "the rediscovery of human nature" by behavioral scientists. In the second, the Religion section considered the decline of interest in secular problems and the renewed search for the sacred. This week the Education section examines recent reappraisals of some of the purposes, methods and results of schooling...
Last week TIME began a four-part series that focuses attention on those ideas that are challenging the current generation's established wisdom-the related concepts of liberalism, rationalism and scientism. In the first part of the series, TIME's Behavior section described the limits-and potentialities-of human nature as now seen by certain behavioral scientists. This week the Religion section examines some developments both within and outside the churches that are working subtle changes in the spiritual face of America...