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Article: Interactions: Some Contacts Between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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From Aristotle's biological analogies to recent work in sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, social and political thought has kept close connections with the natural sciences. Many of these encounters have been fruitful, but some are merely fruity: recognizing the difference is not always easy.
In Interactions: Some Contacts between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences, the eminent historian of science, I. Bernard Cohen, presents succinct, informative accounts of these complex interconnections, especially during the early seventeenth century but also through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. He also draws a number of general conclusions from ...