Human sciences : reappraising the humanities through history and philosophy

著者

• Høyrup, Jens

書誌事項

Human sciences : reappraising the humanities through history and philosophy

Jens Høyrup

（SUNY series in science, technology, and society / Sal Restivo and Jennifer L. Croissant, editors）

State University of New York Press, c2000

• : hard
• : pbk

タイトル別名

Human sciences

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-413) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Human Sciences assesses the importance and value of the humanities historically and philosophically, and makes the case for treating them as sciences. Through careful examination of the characteristics they share with the natural and social sciences, as well as what distinguishes them from other scientific fields, the book argues that the humanities may be seen to correspond with the German/Latin Wissenschaft/scientia—that is, as systematic, organized bodies of knowledge, rather than as branches of knowledge that should necessarily emulate the quantitative and experimental approach of the natural sciences. After analyzing the humanities from historical and philosophical perspectives, the book presents a general philosophy of science that results from an analysis of the features that are shared by the humanities and the natural and social sciences, and then applies some of these insights to philosophical problems of particular relevance for the humanities, such as moral philosophy and the relation between art and cognition.

目次

Introduction Some Fundamental Concepts Part I: Institutions, Professions, and Ideas Approaching the Humanities through their History and Settings 1 A Bronze Age Scribal Culture: A Sociological Fable with an Implicit Moral Brain work and state formation The first intellectuals Scribal "humanism" 2 Classical Antiquity The rise of philosophy From the Sophists to Aristotle The epoch of Hellenization The impact of Christianity 3 The Middle Ages An era of renascences The Central Middle Ages (750 to 1050) The age of the Liberal Arts The rise of universities Aristotelianism The compromise The fourteenth century The post-medieval university 4 The Renaissance Renaissance and Humanism The wider context Humanist scholarship, pedantry, and the humanities A "Scientific Renaissance"? 5 The Early Modern Epoch and Classicism A shifting centre of gravity Courtly culture and classicism From scientific to philosophical revolution Scholarly and theoretical activity The problem of the Baroque 6 The Enlightenment The appearance of the "public sphere" The Enlightenment movement and its workers General themes and accomplishment Philosophy redefined Enlightenment and Revolution 7 The Nineteenth Century The institutionalization of unbounded scientific quest The German university reform and the humanities "Positive knowledge" Popularized science and popular science Academic and non-academic humanities 8 Toward the Present: Scientific Humanities 9 Bibliographic Essay Part II: Human Science and Human "Nature" 10 Cognitive Interests 11 Anthropologies 12 Theories of Created Man Determination by the body Environmental determination Sociologisms Weberian sociology: an example Structuralisms Functionalism 13 Humanity as Freedom The early Sartre: freedom as an absolute principle The elusive connection: freedom versus explanation 14 Toward Synthesis: Human Nature as Dialectic and History Dialectic Summing up Part III: The Art of Knowing An Essay on Epistemology in Practice 15 INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS Philosophy and the problem of knowledge 16 A Piagetian Introduction to the General Problem of Knowledge Schemes and dialectic The periods Supplementary observations The status of schemes and categories 17 The Nature and Demarcation of Scientific Knowledge A pseudo-historical introduction to some key concepts Empiricism and falsificationism Instrumentalism and truth Instruments or models? 18 A New Approach: Theories about the Scientific Process Popper and Lakatos: theories or research programmes? Theories falsified by theories The limits of formalization Kuhn: Paradigms and finger exercises The structure of scientific development Collective and individual knowledge Two kinds of"logic" Objections and further meditations 19 Truth, Causality, and Objectivity Truth Causality Objectivity, subjectivity, and particularism 20 The Role of Norm Logic and norms Explanations of morality Morality, language and social practice Knowledge, norms and ideology Value relativism and value nihilism Institutional imperatives Theoretical versus applied science Further norms, contradictions, contradictory interpretations 21 The Theory of Interdisciplinary and Applied Science Know-how and know-why The acquisition of theoretical knowledge The "Scientific-Technological Revolution" Interdisciplinarity Interdisciplinarity in basic research 22 Art and Cognition Knowing about art Knowing in art Fresh eyes Form versus contents Gelsted and Epicuros Art as thought experiments "Realism" Synthetical understanding and practical knowledge Abbreviations and Bibliography Name and Title Index Subject Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA50812963
• ISBN:
  • 0791446034
  • 0791446042
• LCCN: 99088563
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Albany, NY
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 448 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : AZ103
  • DC21 : 001.3/01
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Humanities -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Humanities -- History
  • LCSH : Science and the humanities
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA10800007