Pinker vs Lehrer
Both Stephen Pinker and Jonah Lehrer agree that the arts should be incorporated into the science world. Lehrer proposes that art can make science better if the scientific community and the arts both just modify and come together. “The sciences must recognize that their truths are not the only truths… The struggle for scientific truth is long and hard and never-ending. If we want to get an answer to our deepest questions — the questions of who we are and what everything is — we will need to draw from both science and art, so that each completes the other.” Lehrer is saying that the possible answers and understandings to some of the most sought after questions can be answered by this union because the sciences need other facts and thoughts to support them. Similarly, Pinker also goes on to say that all science isn’t concrete if there hasn’t been any room to look for naysayer arguments and/or faults in the claim. “Any movement that calls itself a “scientific” but fails to nurture opportunities for the falsification of its own beliefs (most obviously when it murders or imprisons the people who disagree with it) is not a scientific movement”. This quote by Pinker agrees with Lehrer in the way that science cannot be stand-alone, end-all-be-all facts, they need to have something to back it up, support it and make it a stronger claim.
Pinker vs World
As I read Pinker’s article, I was able to connect his piece with the thought of my future journey through pharmacy school and then through my career as a pharmacist. The world of pharmacy will be an ever-changing field with constantly updating medications and discoveries that will be crucial to my career path. “Scientists themselves are immersed in the ethereal medium of information, including the truths of mathematics, the logic of their theories, and the values that guide their enterprise. In this conception, science is a piece of logic with philosophy, reason, and Enlightenment humanism”. This is relevant to my pharmacy pathway because soon this will be me, being thrown into the ‘ethereal medium of information’ just like all the other scientists trying to make sense of the information sitting in front of me.
Careful. If you claim that Pinker believes art should be incorporated into the science world, you want to be able to back it up with clear evidence.
I think you landed on a fantastic Pinker quote in your second paragraph. I recommend that you clearly articulate a main point and replace your current claim sentence with this new sentence. Then I recommend that you expand your “connecting analysis.” Do you see the science that informs pharmaceutical medicine as “a piece of logic with philosophy, reason, and Enlightenment humanism?”