What Science Offers the Humanities

by Edward Slingerland

Book Overview

What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing current approaches to the study of culture. It focuses especially 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521877709
• ISBN13: 9780521877701
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.3"