What science offers the humanities : integrating body and culture / / Edward Slingerland [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Slingerland Edward G (Edward Gilman)
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 001.3
• Soggetto topico: Science and the humanities
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-355) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Exorcising the ghost in the machine -- Embodying culture -- Defending vertical integration.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: What science offers the humanities
• ISBN: 1-107-18315-4; 1-281-25476-2; 9786611254766; 0-511-84116-7; 0-511-38713-X; 0-511-38610-9; 0-511-38427-0; 0-511-38246-4; 0-511-38812-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450686603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II