Temporary Timeline
1881 Matthew Arnold’s speech at the Royal Academy of Arts
1883 Henry Huxley’s Speech at the Royal Academy of Arts
1959 “The Two Cultures” Rede Lecture by C. P. Snow
1962 “Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow” Richmond Lecture by F. R. Leavis
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
1975 Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
1979 Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
1986 The Science Question in Feminism by Sandra Harding
1994 Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul Gross and Norman Levitt
1995 Editor of the postmodern journal Social Text, Andrew Ross, coins the term Science Wars
1996 The Sokal Affair
1998 Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
