Reddit reviews Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

OH YEAH. He is one of my favorite authors, ever. The Diversity of Life won him a Pulitzer if I recall correctly, and is a must read for anyone who loves non-fiction and biology. Consilience is a heady read and well worth the time. The Future of Life is a call to arms in defense of the environment, and as well written and straightfoward as anyone could ask. Kind of like An Inconvenient Truth, if it was written by one of the most brilliant and silver-tongued biologists of our time instead of the inventor of the internet.

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

CONSILIENCE - Edward O. Wilson IS the answer to your question.

After reading the other comments, there is nothing that is BETTER at explaining social AND scientific history in combination with each other than this book alone. PLEASE do check it out, it is one of my absolute favorites and I have gifted it many times to both social and scientific students and employees.

It looks like a lot more people here need to read: http://www.amazon.com/Consilience-Knowledge-Edward-Osborne-Wilson/dp/067976867X/

With regards to the blog post:

Your point was to create a distinction between students and working social scientists, which is unfounded given the highlighted segment of the post.

With regards to using personal experience as evidence:

I brought it up once, to meet you half on your emphasis on personal experiences. It was not intended as evidence or proof or anything of that sort.

I am not so foolish as to think my own experiences are inherently generalizable.

With regards to having no sources:

At the moment I have three, and to counter I have "No, I've seen different".

But alright, if you wish more:

http://www.amazon.ca/Third-Culture-Beyond-Scientific-Revolution/dp/0684823446

https://www.dukeupress.edu/Science-Wars/index-viewby=author&lastname=Aronowitz&firstname=Stanley&middlename=&sort=newest&aID=1472866.html

http://www.amazon.com/Consilience-Knowledge-Edward-Osborne-Wilson/dp/067976867X

Anyway, this discussion has clearly become pointless. You refuse to acknowledge any evidence that doesn't fit into your personal narrative and keep attempting to assert what I'm saying is ridiculous to dismiss my point.

But on the plus side, your argumentation has fully convinced me you're a social scientist.

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E.O. Wilson

Read up on 'consilience of evidence', so that you can understand that a consensus has been reached, about the primary cause of recent warning being attributable to the increase of atmospheric CO2, from the burning of fossil fuels.

'Consilience' is a bit of a technical term, and it was coined by the famed biologist, Edward Wilson, who wrote a whole book about it. If you disagree with the consensus, then I'd recommend that you read that book http://www.amazon.com/Consilience-Knowledge-Edward-Osborne-Wilson/dp/067976867X

I haven't seen anything where he suggests he is an academic scientist? AntsCanada actually released a video where he visited academic scientists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCIG3EwpU5w&ab_channel=AntsCanada and I've noticed a lot of them congregate on the forums. I prefer the term myrmecophily for myself. But I'd also love to get a formal "doctorate in myrmecological studies" title some day.

I think the definition of what it takes to be called a "myrmcologist" really depends on your stance toward citizen science. Do you need to have a fancy degree and lab experience to bring value to the world with scientific rigor? Certainly, calling oneself a 'doctor' or giving an MD/PHd title would be questionable, but I don't think any academic institution has a monopoly on the term myrmcologist itself.

Interestingly, E.O. Wilson actually wrote a book on that strange dichotomy.

As for ant poop, the "ant sorting algorithm" is a well known phenomena, even being used as inspiration for distributed robotics. As for journal published research on bathroom etiquette, there's some work being done in that area. that is quite interesting. There's also some great work being done on how ants measure and count things like this at a behavioral level at the intersecting of computer science and biology sciences.

The methodology and approach here reminds me of E.O. Wilson's concept (and book), called "Consilience" - which concerns the unity of disparate forms of knowledge (e.g. science and religion). Also: The wiki for Consilience. Speaking of book signing, I actually got my copy of Consilience signed by Wilson and he inscribed a cute little ant as his signature (he is an entomologist). Edit: I forwarded Rick the link to this thread. Would be great if he stopped by.