Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities

by Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard

Book Overview

Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been framed as bringing the study of humanistic issues into line with the study of non-human phenomena, rather than as something to which humanists and scientists contribute equally. The other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019979569X
• ISBN13: 9780199795697
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"