The Trouble with Scientism.

SCIENTISM; HUMANITIES; SCIENCE & the humanities; GRAND unified theories (Nuclear physics); SCIENTIFIC method; INTERPERSONAL relations

The article offers the author's views on scientism, a view which privileges the methods of scientific discovery as the most important way of obtaining knowledge, versus the pursuit of the humanities like art and literature. He discusses the flaws in scientific imperialism's search for a unified theory of everything, considers the similarities in methods used by scientists and humanists, and describes the complex nature of human social behavior. He uses the terms Geisteswissenschaften and Naturwissenschaften.