Background
Kline, Stephen Jay was born on February 25, 1922 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Eugene Field and Sheda (Lowman) Kline.
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( Our current intellectual system provides us with a far ...)
Our current intellectual system provides us with a far more complete and accurate understanding of nature and ourselves than was available in any previous society. This gain in understanding has arisen from two sources: the use of the 'scientific method', and the breaking up of our intellectual enterprise into increasingly narrower disciplines and research programs. However, we have failed to keep these narrow specialities connected to the intellectual enterprise as a whole. The author demonstrates that this causes a number of difficulties. We have no viewpoint from which we can understand the relationships between the disciplines and lack a forum for adjudicating situations where different disciplines give conflicting answers to the same problem. We seriously underestimate the differences in methodology and in the nature of principles in the various branches of science. This provocative and wide-ranging book provides a detailed analysis and possible solutions for dealing with this problem.
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Kline, Stephen Jay was born on February 25, 1922 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Eugene Field and Sheda (Lowman) Kline.
Bachelor, Stanford University, 1943; Master of Science, Stanford University, 1949; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952.
Research analyst, N. American Aviation, 1946-1948; member of faculty, Stanford (California) U., 1952-1992; retired, since 1992; professor mechanic engineering, Stanford (California) U., since 1961; chairman thermoscis. division, Stanford (California) U., 1961-1973; professor values, technical science and society, Stanford (California) U., 1970-1992. Consultant General Electric, General Motors, United Technology, DuPont, Brown Boveri.
( Our current intellectual system provides us with a far ...)
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers (honorary life, past chairman fluid mechanics committee fluids engineering division, Melville medal 1959, Fluids Engineering award 1975, Centennial award 1980). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (life), National Academy of Engineering.
Married Naomi Jeffries, July 10, 1977. Children: David M., Mark D., Carolyn R.