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What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing the study of culture. It focuses 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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What I find interesting here is Slingerland's post-mortem on post modernism, his list of reasons why so many readers like myself rejected it as little more than mental onanism, and what we might look forward to in its stead. He argues that what we are tending toward now is what he calls consilience or vertical integration of the natural sciences. This view rejects the old fashioned humanist dualism; that is, the view of body and soul being separate if complementary entities, for one that sees them as inextricably integrated, whole, one. Slingerland's use of jargon can be a little difficult for the nonspecialist at times (a glossary would have been a wonderful addition) though his arguments are elegant if lengthy. He believes that what we presently find occuring in the cognitive sciences, AI and robotics demonstrates that any separation of the mind and body is untenable.