The Divide Between Humanities and Science: Why it Matters and How it can be Repaired

Associated Investigator Vera Meyer wrote an essay for the publication »The Divide Between Humanities and Science: Why It Matters and How it Can be Repaired«, edited by Richard C. Brusca. The title of Meyers’ essay is »Back to the roots!«, where she describes that a collaboration among scientists and artists can refill C. P. Snow’s vacuum with life, metaphorically and literally — in her case, with fungi!

The publication »The Divide Between Humanities and Science: Why it Matters and How it can be Repaired« describes consilience between science and the humanities by revealing a secret: while university scholars wring their hands trying to imagine how consilience might be achieved, it turns out a lot of creative people have been doing it all along. It’s simply what they do, how they think and see the world, where they live in their minds and hearts. The essays in this volume are testimony that E. O. Wilson’s dream of consilience has been manifest all along; we just had to look in the right places for it. The 16 essays in this volume (by 21 contributors) come from scientists, educators, artists of all stripes, businesspeople, and deep thinkers. They represent a wide breadth of views by people in different professions who appreciate the wisdom and human benefit to be gained by integrating science and humanities.

More information on the publication as well as a sample, can be found here:
https://ethicspress.com/products/the-divide-between-humanities-and-science