Two Cultures Fifty Years On - Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve

As part of the 2010 NZ Aronui Lecture Series, the public lecture by Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve was held in the Japan Lecture Threatre, University House, Massey University Campus, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North on 20th September 2010 at 17:30 hours (NZ standard time). The abstract of the lecture is as follows:

The humanities and science were once seen as entirely different cultures. Now that we appreciate their similarities, how will looking at the world through two lenses infl uence our future? In his 1959 Rede lecture The Two Cultures, C.P. Snow contrasted what he called ‘the traditional culture’ of literary study with the culture of natural science, and judged them wholly different in approach and achievements. The scientific culture, as he saw it, was rigorous and productive; the literary culture was neither. However, a wider look at inquiry in the humanities and the natural sciences reveals a very large overlap in approach. In both domains inquiry relies on interpretation and inference,
aims at empirical truth claims and relies on normative assumptions, in variable proportions.

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