In my experience, this is something that liberal arts does better than STEM. When I was a History undergrad they DID teach many contrasting theories or interpretations (once you got past 101-level stuff). The common interpretation these days is to say that “Here are three theories for why happened. They probably all contributed to .”, instead of just choosing a single interpretation.
At least at my college, liberal arts methods seemed better than STEM at presenting alternate theories but much worse at providing the tools to filter them or evaluate their plausibility. I’m not sure the gains from the former outweigh the losses from the latter.
In my experience, this is something that liberal arts does better than STEM. When I was a History undergrad they DID teach many contrasting theories or interpretations (once you got past 101-level stuff). The common interpretation these days is to say that “Here are three theories for why happened. They probably all contributed to .”, instead of just choosing a single interpretation.
At least at my college, liberal arts methods seemed better than STEM at presenting alternate theories but much worse at providing the tools to filter them or evaluate their plausibility. I’m not sure the gains from the former outweigh the losses from the latter.