J Scott Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Scott Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2457-6138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bubbles and Darwinian Daydreams
J. Scott Turner finds that Richard Dawkins’ and Jana Lenzová’s The Genetic Book of the Dead. A Darwinian Reverie is an eloquent defense of the Darwinian faith that won’t look quite so eloquent to those standing outside the neo-Darwinian “epistemic bubble.”
Mixing Politics and Science
Modern science played an integral part in the rise to global dominance of both the Soviet Union and the United States in the twentieth century. Simon Ings’ Stalin and the Scientists explores, through the figures of Trofim Lysenko and Nikolai Vavilov, how communist ideology and tyranny at once exploited, degraded, and censored scientific knowledge, while destroying individual scientists. Audra Wolfe’s Freedom’s Laboratory, recounts how the United …
On Institutional Neutrality and Public Health
Letters and responses in our winter 2024 issue of Academic Questions
Introduction
Scott Turner, a member of the group of scientists called The Third Way of Evolution and coordinator for this feature, introduces readers to our look at the state of evolutionary science. Turner explains that the feature will survey the latest discoveries in a number of scientific disciplines, some of which have challenged the Darwinian “Modern Synthesis” and suggest the possibility of discovering purpose, intent, and agency in living organisms
Homeostasis and Purposeful Evolution
Life may exist in a physical world, writes Scott Turner, but it is also marked by attributes not to be found in that world, such as intentionality, purposefulness, design, and intelligence. The Darwinian idea seeks to explain evolution while avoiding those essential attributes of life. The widely misunderstood and trivialized concept of homeostasis might help us bridge the gap between our material and non-material understanding of life
American Lysenko
NAS Director of Science Programs J. Scott Turner reviews Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci, in which Kennedy dissects the costly incompetence of our scientific health establishment during the Covid-19 pandemic. Turner is most troubled by “how Fauci and his NIAID cabal have crushed the normal process of science: of objectivity and open discussion of alternate views centered at all times on reliable data.” Kennedy’s book, according to …
Unreasonable Science
A review of "Science in an Age of Unreason," by John Staddon, 2022, Regnery Gateway Press, pp. 303, $29.99 hardbound
Decolonizing Science
It is far from clear that Western science has suppressed or damaged “indigenous knowledge,” as a recent editorial in Nature suggests. But there is an important story to tell about science, natural resources, and the developing world
Biotic analogies for self-organising cities
Nature has inspired generations of urban designers and planners in pursuit of harmonious and functional built environments. Research regarding self-organisation has encouraged urbanists to consider the role of bottom-up approaches in generating urban order. However, the extent to which self-organisation-inspired approaches draw directly from nature is not always clear. Here, we examined the biological basis of urban research, focusing on self-org…
From thermodynamics to creativity
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From thermodynamics to creativity
Biotic analogies for self-organising cities
Nature has inspired generations of urban designers and planners in pursuit of harmonious and functional built environments. Research regarding self-organisation has encouraged urbanists to consider the role of bottom-up approaches in generating urban order. However, the extent to which self-organisation-inspired approaches draw directly from nature is not always clear. Here, we examined the biological basis of urban research, focusing on self-org…
Unreasonable Science
A review of "Science in an Age of Unreason," by John Staddon, 2022, Regnery Gateway Press, pp. 303, $29.99 hardbound
Decolonizing Science
It is far from clear that Western science has suppressed or damaged “indigenous knowledge,” as a recent editorial in Nature suggests. But there is an important story to tell about science, natural resources, and the developing world
On Institutional Neutrality and Public Health
Letters and responses in our winter 2024 issue of Academic Questions
Introduction
Scott Turner, a member of the group of scientists called The Third Way of Evolution and coordinator for this feature, introduces readers to our look at the state of evolutionary science. Turner explains that the feature will survey the latest discoveries in a number of scientific disciplines, some of which have challenged the Darwinian “Modern Synthesis” and suggest the possibility of discovering purpose, intent, and agency in living organisms
Homeostasis and Purposeful Evolution
Life may exist in a physical world, writes Scott Turner, but it is also marked by attributes not to be found in that world, such as intentionality, purposefulness, design, and intelligence. The Darwinian idea seeks to explain evolution while avoiding those essential attributes of life. The widely misunderstood and trivialized concept of homeostasis might help us bridge the gap between our material and non-material understanding of life
American Lysenko
NAS Director of Science Programs J. Scott Turner reviews Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci, in which Kennedy dissects the costly incompetence of our scientific health establishment during the Covid-19 pandemic. Turner is most troubled by “how Fauci and his NIAID cabal have crushed the normal process of science: of objectivity and open discussion of alternate views centered at all times on reliable data.” Kennedy’s book, according to …
Bubbles and Darwinian Daydreams
J. Scott Turner finds that Richard Dawkins’ and Jana Lenzová’s The Genetic Book of the Dead. A Darwinian Reverie is an eloquent defense of the Darwinian faith that won’t look quite so eloquent to those standing outside the neo-Darwinian “epistemic bubble.”
Mixing Politics and Science
Modern science played an integral part in the rise to global dominance of both the Soviet Union and the United States in the twentieth century. Simon Ings’ Stalin and the Scientists explores, through the figures of Trofim Lysenko and Nikolai Vavilov, how communist ideology and tyranny at once exploited, degraded, and censored scientific knowledge, while destroying individual scientists. Audra Wolfe’s Freedom’s Laboratory, recounts how the United …
Sociology (9 works) · Higher education (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy of education (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works)