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Talent and Patents: The sciences fight for intellectual jurisdiction

[5.8.08]

...This is not the first intellectual iconoclasm of a practical science. In the early nineties, the so-called Third Culture arose under the patronage of New York literary agent John Brockman. Since then, in bestsellers and in the online magazine Edge.org, scientists have begun to conquer the realm that traditionally belonged to philosophy and theology. With enormous success, Steven Pinker destroyed the great myths of the Enlightenment with his book The Blank Slate, Daniel Dennett reduced free will to biological processes, and Richard Dawkins supported the core beliefs of millions with his onslaught against religious faith in The God Delusion. ...

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[ Thu. May. 8. 2008 ]

...This is not the first intellectual iconoclasm of a practical science. In the early nineties, the so-called Third Culture arose under the patronage of New York literary agent John Brockman [3]. Since then, in bestsellers and in the online magazine Edge.org [4], scientists have begun to conquer the realm that traditionally belonged to philosophy and theology. With enormous success, Steven Pinker [5] destroyed the great myths of the Enlightenment with his book The Blank Slate, Daniel Dennett [6] reduced free will to biological processes, and Richard Dawkins [7] supported the core beliefs of millions with his onslaught against religious faith in The God Delusion. ...

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[5] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/pinker.html
[6] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/dennett.html
[7] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/dawkins.html
[8] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/andrian_kreye