Ultimate Truths: Comparing Science and the Humanities
Channel: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Date: 2016-03-22

This Communications Forum special event explored the differences and similarities in the kinds of knowledge available through inquiry in the sciences and humanities, and the ways that knowledge is obtained. The panelists were historian, novelist, and columnist James Carroll; philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein; author and physicist Alan Lightman; and biologist Robert Weinberg. Seth Mnookin, Associate Director of the Forum, moderated.