Having one foot planted firmly on each side of what many consider an unbridgeable chasm, Tauber (philosophy, medicine, and philosophy and history of science; Boston U.) ponders the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. He discusses scientific reason, what science is, 19th-century positivism, and its fall, the science wars, science in its socio-political contexts, and the challenge of coherence. Distributed in the US by Hopkins Fulfillment Services. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)