The Third Culture

The Third Culture: Beyond The Scientific Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 1995) is the title of a book by [John Brockman]? which discusses the work of several well-known thinkers who are directly communicating their new, sometimes provocative, ideas to the general public.

The title of the book refers to [Charles Percy Snow]?'s 1959 work [The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution]?.

23 people were included in the book:

• physicist [Paul Davies]?
• biologist Richard Dawkins
• philosopher Daniel C. Dennett
• paleontologist [Niles Eldredge]?
• chaos theorist [J. Doyne Farmer]?
• theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann
• biologist [Brian Goodwin]?
• geologist/biologist Stephen Jay Gould
• physicist [Alan Guth]?
• inventor [W. Daniel Hillis]?
• theoretical psychologist [Nicholas Humphrey]?
• geneticist [Steve Jones]?
• biologist [Stuart Kauffman]?
• complex systems specialist [Christopher Langton]?
• biologist [Lynn Margulis]?
• mathematician and computer scientist Marvin Minsky,
• mathematical physicist Roger Penrose
• cognitive scientist [Steven Pinker]?
• theoretical astrophysicist [Martin Rees]?
• cognitive scientist [Roger Schank]?
• theoretical physicist [Lee Smolin]?
• biologist [Francisco Varela]?
• evolutionary biologist [George C. Williams]?

The following website is about the third culture: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/