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Creating consilience : integrating the sciences and the humanities / edited by Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New directions in cognitive science.
- New directions in cognitive science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science and the humanities--Congresses.
- Science and the humanities.
- Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge--Congresses.
- Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
- Humanities--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Humanities.
- Science--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Science.
- Cognitive science--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Cognitive science.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 450 pages) : illustrations, map
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Integrating the sciences and the humanities
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributor Notes
- Introduction : Creating Consilience: Toward a Second Wave
- Part I: Theoretical Issues
- Section One: Ontologies for the Human
- 1. The Humanities and Human Nature
- 2. The Metaphysical Realities of the Unphysical Sciences: Or Why Vertical Integration Seems Unrealistic to Ontological Pluralists
- 3. Mind-Body Dualism and the Two Cultures
- 4. On the Psychological Origins of Dualism: Dual-Process Cognition and the Explanatory Gap
- Section Two: Consilience Through the Lens of Anthropology
- 5. From Studious Irrelevancy to Consilient Knowledge: Modes of Scholarship and Cultural Anthropology
- 6. Whence and Whither Sociocultural Anthropology
- 7. Unconsilience: Rethinking the Two-Cultures Conundrum in Anthropology
- Part II: Case Studies
- Section Three: Culture
- 8. Culture in Songbirds and Its Contribution to the Evolution of New Species
- 9. When Does Psychology Drive Culture?
- 10. Quantifying the Importance of Motifs on Attic Figure-Painted Pottery
- 11. Agents, Intelligence, and Social Atoms
- Section Four: Religion
- 12. Evolutionary Religious Studies: A Beginner's Guide13. The Cultural Evolution of Religion
- 14. The Importance of Being 'Ernest'?
- Section Five: Morality
- 15. We're All Connected: Science, Ethics, and the Law
- 16. The Evolution of a Sense of Morality
- 17. Behavioral Ethics
- 18. Interdisciplinary Education and Knowledge Translation Programs in Neuroethics
- Section Six: Literature and Oral Traditions
- 19. 'Once the Child is Lost He Dies'?: Monster Stories vis-a-vis the Problem of Errant Children
- 20. 'By Weapons Made Worthy'?: A Darwinian Perspective on Beowulf
- 21. Palaeolithic Politics in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century
- 22. Language, Cognition, and Literature
- Afterword: Two Points about Two Cultures
- Appendix: 'Integrating Science and the Humanities'?
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
- E
- F
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- I
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- K
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- N
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- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 21, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-020799-X
- 0-19-979569-X
- 1-283-42315-4
- 9786613423153
- 0-19-979448-0
- OCLC:
- 922971062
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