From which this wonderful quote:
There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but whenever it matters, there is no alternative. There are no specifically Hindu or Taoist designs for mobile phones, faxes or television. There are no satellites based on feminist alternatives to quantum theory. Even the great public sceptic about the value of science, Prince Charles, never flies a helicopter burning homeopathically diluted petrol, that is, water with only a memory of benzine molecules, maintained by a schedule derived from reading tea leaves, and navigated by a crystal ball.
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Hey, I have that book! And his Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. He does have a wonderfully pithy way of putting things. I particularly like this characterisation of the Church of England from a review of books by John Polkinghorne:
That's brilliant, although now, I want to try and convince Prince Charles to try flying a homeopathicopter.
Blackburn is just a paragon of intellectually stimulating, but pithy and engaging, writing.