Last night, and not for the first time, I juggled alternative openings for a short but fitting memorial statement for Academic Questions on Norman Levitt, admirable product of Bronx Science, Harvard, and Princeton. He was my good friend, collaborator, and co-author. And once again nothing good enough for that memory came to mind.
So I went to the small screen to watch our Red Sox (this is Boston, late August) play the Orioles. Still in their late-season debility, the Sox worked themselves up to yet another wipeout by sometimes cellar-resident Baltimore. As I switched off the post-game justifications (excuses), there arose, quite unexpectedly, recollections of Steve Fuller (Warwick, UK), productive sociologist of science and “social epistemologist.” They were about Prof. Fuller’s 2007 apologia, Science v. Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution.1The book was at least
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