What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture
Cambridge University Press (2008)
| Abstract | What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing current approaches to the study of culture. It focuses especially on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences—and particular research on human cognition—which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and the body is entirely untenable. The author provides suggestions for how humanists might begin to utilize these scientific discoveries without conceding that science has the last word on morality, religion, art, and literature. Calling into question such deeply entrenched dogmas as the "blank slate" theory of nature, strong social constructivism, and the ideal of disembodied reason, What Science Offers the Humanities replaces the human-sciences divide with a more integrated approach to the study of culture | |||||||||
| Keywords | Science and the humanities | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Buy the book | $72.96 new (27% off) $99.00 direct from Amazon Amazon page | |||||||||
| Call number | B53.S5355 2008 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780521877701 0521877709 | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,631 |
| External links |
  Try with proxy. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articles Gilbert Jr (1997). A Critique and a Retrieval of Management and the Humanities. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (1):23 - 35.
Paola Spinozzi & Alessandro Zironi (eds.) (2010). Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities. V & R Unipress.
Alfred I. Tauber (2009). Science and the Quest for Meaning. Baylor University Press.
Abigail J. Stewart (ed.) (2001). Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Westview Press.
Alan Petersen (2003). Governmentality, Critical Scholarship, and the Medical Humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities 24 (3/4):187-201.
Todd Jones (1998). Interpretive Social Science and the "Native's Point of View": A Closer Look. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 28 (1):32-68.
Ladislav Tondl (1998). What is the Thematic Structure of Science? Journal for General Philosophy of Science 29 (2):245-264.
A. Koj & Piotr Sztompka (eds.) (2001). Images of the World: Science, Humanities, Art. Jagiellonian University.
Jens Høyrup (1995). As Regards the Humanities--: An Approach to Their Theory Through History and Philosophy. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Bradford McCall (2011). What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture. By Edward Slingerland. Heythrop Journal 52 (2):351-352.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads28 ( #43,979 of 548,969 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,511 of 548,969 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
