======================= HES POSTING ================= > As people prepare syllabi for next year's history of economic thought > courses, I am sure that many could benefit from suggestions made by > others. So .... > Next Spring, in a combined graduate/undergraduate class, I will be assigning _Belief and Resistence: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy_ , by Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Cambridge: Harvard University Press paperback, 1997) at the beginning of the course. This book takes up the current contests over the nature and meaning of "truth", "reason" and "objectivity" and provides an original perspective on issues of relativism and skepticism, which issues remain central to understanding the historiography of science, a fortiori the historiography of economics, at the end of this century. E. Roy Weintraub, Professor of Economics Director, Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science Duke University, Box 90097 Durham, North Carolina 27708-0097 Phone and voicemail: (919) 660-1838 Fax: (919) 684-8974 E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.econ.duke.edu/~erw/erw.homepage.html ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]