John H. Zammito is the John Antony Weir Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-Positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (2004) and Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology (2002).
The exasperated tone with which evolutionary scientists, philosophers of science, and others on the side of science and philosophy received Nagel’s book was struck early.