Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Sciences and Arts Debate -- 2 Historical and Structural Approaches in the Natural and Human Sciences -- Discussion: The Role of Laws and Contingency in History -- 3 Science and Society in Flux -- Discussion: Does A New Kind of Science Require a New Kind of Scholar or a New Kind of University? -- 4 Science for the 21st Century -- Discussion: Redrawing Disciplinar Boundaries - but to What Degree? -- 5 Science and Democracy -- Discussion: Science and Democracy: a Difficult Relationship -- 6 Epilogue -- 7 Appendix.