One Size Fits All? [Book Review]

once Francis Bacon had smashed the idols and Rene Descartes devised the new basic furniture of reality, natural philosophers and merchants proved to be as thick as thieves - pursuit of gain was the thing. Perhaps it had something to do with their Exchequer, the Good Lord, in proof of whose existence Pascal, somewhat later, devised decision theory and probability, and thereby bequeathed us the national lottery. Review(s) of: Human Nature and the Limits of Science, by John Dupre, Oxford, 2001, about $50. Review(s) of: Who Rules in Science?, by James Robert Brown, Harvard, 2001, about $60.