Creating Consilience - Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Directions in Cognitive Science
Release date:	2012
Editors:	Edward Slingerland (Associate Professor of Asian Studies , Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition) • Mark Collard (Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies)
Dimensions:	236 x 161 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	472
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-979439-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
LSN:	0-19-979439-1
Barcode:	9780199794393

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