Norman Levitt

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Norman Jay Levitt is a mathematician at Rutgers University. He received a PhD from Princeton University in 1967. He has been a prominent figure in the science wars, often arguing against relativism and for the objective nature of science. He is a firm believer in the scientific method and its ability to uncover the truth. He refers to his opponents collectively as the "academic left," a term which he admittedly says does not possess firm boundaries and in which he includes most opponents of scientific neopositivism.

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• Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science (1994) (with Paul R. Gross)
• The Flight from Science and Reason (1997)
• Prometheus Bedeviled: Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture (1999)