233 Last year saw the posthumous publication of Stephen Jay Gould’s last volume, The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox (Gould, 2003) with the subtitle ‘Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities’. The two protagonists were chosen to represent metaphorically a stereotypical disparity between two different ways of ‘knowing’ or looking at nature. The hedgeho...
