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Philosophy of the Humanities: the Nature of the Humanities

Abstracts of the 6th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education
One question for the burgeoning field of ‘philosophy of the humanities’ is whether there is anything that binds the humanistic disciplines together—whether the humanities ‘have a (communal) nature’. In recent years this question has received disparaging
Dr. Rene van Woudenberg
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The Anthropocene’s dating problem: Insights from the geosciences and the humanities

The Anthropocene Review, 2018
The Anthropocene, generally defined, is the time when human activities have a significant impact on the Earth System. However, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences have different understandings of how and when human activities ...
K. Nichols, Bina Gogineni
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The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities

, 2018
"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. There is more and more reason to think: less and less,he answered.
Frank Donoghue
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Blue Humanities

, 2023
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet's troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various ...
S. Oppermann
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Humanizing the humanities

New Directions for Community Colleges, 1983
AbstractHumanists who want to work more closely with those in other disciplines must consider another point of view. We humanists have moved too slowly to enlarge our definition of a truly educated person.
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Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities

, 2016
The image of the scholar as a solitary thinker dates back at least to Descartes' Discourse on Method. But scholarly practices in the humanities are changing as older forms of communal inquiry are combined with modern research methods enabled by the ...
Geoffrey Rockwell, S. Sinclair
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Humanism and the Human

2020
Abstract This chapter engages humanism and its fundamental assumptions by working through critical theory, black feminism, and black studies. It contends that there is a tension at the heart of humanism—while the ideal human appears to be the most widespread and available category, it has been constructed over and against certain ...
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4E Cognition and the Humanities

The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition, 2018
The arts and humanities move us and change our minds—not just metaphorically but literally. This chapter provides a snapshot of some of the work that has occurred at the intersection of cognitive science and theater and literature.
Amy L. Cook
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Humanizing Humanity: The Global Significance of the Humanities [PDF]

Diogenes, 2013
AbstractThe essay seeks to vindicate the importance of the humanities or liberal arts deriving from their crucial contribution to the “humanization of humanity”. This vindication is timely in view of the wide-spread curtailment of humanistic or liberal education in many institutions of higher learning. It is also timely as a pedagogical antidote to the
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Human, stubbornly human, sensibly human? [PDF]

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 2019
A century ago, shortly before his death, Simmel (1964) formulated an enigmatic idea of a philosophical sociology as a ‘study of the epistemological and metaphysical aspects of society’ (23) concern...
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