Do The Humanities Create Knowledge

Author : Chris Haufe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009066075
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do the Humanities Create Knowledge? written by Chris Haufe and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to the notion that legitimate knowledge is obtained when a scientist follows a rigorous investigative procedure called the 'scientific method'. Chris Haufe challenges this idea. He shows that what we know about the so-called scientific method rests fundamentally on the use of finely tuned human judgments directed toward certain questions about the natural world. He suggests that this dependence on judgment in fact reveals deep affinities between scientific knowledge and another, equally important, sort of comprehension: that of humanistic creative endeavour. His wide-ranging and stimulating new book uncovers the unexpected unity underlying all our efforts - whether scientific or arts-based - to understand human experience. In so doing, it makes a vital contribution to broader conversation about the value of the humanities in an increasingly STEM-saturated educational culture.

Author : Chris Haufe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316512509
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do the Humanities Create Knowledge? written by Chris Haufe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a widely held belief that the only kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief is often coupled with the notion that scientific knowledge is obtained when a scientist follows a highly refined and rigorous investigative procedure known as the scientific method. However upon closer examination, what we know as "the scientific method" rests fundamentally on the use of highly refined human judgment directed toward certain questions about the natural world. In this book Chris Haufe argues that this dependence on human judgment is at the heart of deep affinities between scientific knowledge and humanists' creative endeavors, and that both the natural sciences and the humanities are in fact involved in the production of different forms of disciplinary knowledge. His book takes readers behind the scenes to show them the unexpected unity underlying our efforts to understand our experiences.

Author : Rens Bod
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199665214
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New History of the Humanities written by Rens Bod and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309470641
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been defining characteristics of a higher education. But over time, in-depth study in a major discipline has come to dominate the curricula at many institutions. This evolution of the curriculum has been driven, in part, by increasing specialization in the academic disciplines. There is little doubt that disciplinary specialization has helped produce many of the achievement of the past century. Researchers in all academic disciplines have been able to delve more deeply into their areas of expertise, grappling with ever more specialized and fundamental problems. Yet today, many leaders, scholars, parents, and students are asking whether higher education has moved too far from its integrative tradition towards an approach heavily rooted in disciplinary "silos". These "silos" represent what many see as an artificial separation of academic disciplines. This study reflects a growing concern that the approach to higher education that favors disciplinary specialization is poorly calibrated to the challenges and opportunities of our time. The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) lead to improved educational and career outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students. It explores evidence regarding the value of integrating more STEMM curricula and labs into the academic programs of students majoring in the humanities and arts and evidence regarding the value of integrating curricula and experiences in the arts and humanities into college and university STEMM education programs.

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717788
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Are We Doing Here? written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”

Author : Joshua Landy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019518856X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Do Things with Fictions written by Joshua Landy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Do Things with Fictions considers how fictional works, ranging from Chaucer to Beckett, subject readers to a series of exercises meant to fortify their mental capacities.

Author : Helen Small
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199683867
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Value of the Humanities written by Helen Small and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities.

Author : E. O. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804154066
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consilience written by E. O. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780631136026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Knowledge to Wisdom written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas G. Pavel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165785
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Novel written by Thomas G. Pavel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, A 2013.