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integrating the sciences and the humanities
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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.
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 Anthropology6. 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 Beginnerâ€?s Guide13. The Cultural Evolution of Religion -- 14. The Importance of Being â€œErnestâ€? -- Section Five: Morality -- 15. Weâ€?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. â€œ Once the Child is Lost He Dies â€?: Monster Stories vis-a-vis the Problem of Errant Children
20. â€œBy Weapons Made Worthyâ€?: A Darwinian Perspective on Beowulf21. Palaeolithic Politics in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century -- 22. Language, Cognition, and Literature -- Afterword: Two Points about Two Cultures -- Appendix: â€œIntegrating Science and the Humanitiesâ€? -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
edited by Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012