From Robert Gallop
Prompted by your essay on C. P. Snow (2 May, p 26), David Roser commented on the poor communication between related disciplines at his university (30 May, p 20).
I am a first-year student studying anthropology, sociology, psychology and philosophy. All the courses deal with concepts of “the person”, but with little overlap. Raising this with tutors often leads to entertaining but dismissive observations about the other disciplines.
This may be because I am studying at quite a low level, but I worry that not only are the scientists not talking to the arts faculty, but even within the arts, the schools pooh-pooh each other.
Despite all the high words, C. P. Snow probably had it right, in perpetuity.
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Oatley, New South Wales, Australia
