Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the
study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been
received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or
hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been
framed as bringing the study of humanistic issues into line with
the study of non-human phenomena, rather than as something to which
humanists and scientists contribute equally. The other major reason
that consilience has yet to catch on in the humanities is a dearth
of compelling examples of the benefits of adopting a consilient
approach. Creating Consilience is the product of a workshop that
brought together internationally-renowned scholars from a variety
of fields to address both of these issues. It includes
representative pieces from workshop speakers and participants that
examine how adopting such a consilient stance -- informed by
cognitive science and grounded in evolutionary theory -- would
concretely impact specific topics in the humanities, examining each
topic in a manner that not only cuts across the humanities-natural
science divide, but also across individual humanistic disciplines.
By taking seriously the fact that science-humanities integration is
a two-way exchange, this volume takes a new approach to bridging
the cultures of science and the humanities. The editors and
contributors formulate how to develop a new shared framework of
consilience beyond mere interdisciplinarity, in a way that both
sides can accept.
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