A Philosophy of the Humanities

AvStephen R. Grimm,Rik Peels

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Co-authored by three philosophers, this ground-breaking book explores a range of new and classic questions concerning the humanities. For example, do the humanities (like the sciences) really make progress? Is there anything that unifies scholarship in the humanities, across fields as diverse as history, literary studies, philosophy, and musicology? And what should we make of the political aims of the humanities--for example, the desire by many scholars in the humanities to uncover systems of oppression and domination? Does this interfere with "objective" scholarship or not?In many ways this book is the first of its kind, considering new topics such as the value of replication studies in the humanities, and deference to other humanities scholars. A Philosophy of the Humanities offers new ways of thinking about the nature of the humanities and the distinctive contributions they make to human understanding.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-17
Mått:140 x 21 x 209 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197749609

Utforska kategorier

Historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Stephen R. Grimm is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Fordham University in New York. He is Series Editor for the Oxford University Press series "Guides to the Good Life," and author of Varieties of Understanding (2019) and Making Sense of the World (2017). He is a Lifetime Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.Rik Peels is University Research Chair in Analytic and Interdisciplinary Philosophy of Religion at the Department of Beliefs and Practices and the Philosophy Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg in South-Africa. He is the author of numerous books, including Ignorance (2023), and Responsible Belief (2016). He currently leads an ERC-funded project on Extreme Beliefs: The Epistemology and Ethics of Fundamentalism.René van Woudenberg is Dean of theFaculty of Humanities and Professor at CLUE+, the Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History, and Hertiage at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy (2020), and Scientism: Prospects and Problems (2018).

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This excellent book offers a wide-ranging, accessibly written, and crucially important philosophical engagement of the nature of the humanities, achieving clarity about what has been an historically unwieldly categorization of disciplines to establish grounds for a philosophy of the humanities on par with that of science. Invaluable for scholars and students across disciplines, this study illuminates the distinctive possibilities for human self-knowledge and wisdom enabled by the humanities, illuminating and supporting their importance to academic and cultural life today.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceChapter 1: Philosophy of the Humanities: What and Why?Chapter 2: The Objects of the HumanitiesChapter 3: The Epistemic Goals of the HumanitiesChapter 4: Authority and Deference in the HumanitiesChapter 5: Methods and Interpretation in the HumanitiesChapter 6: Perspectives, Social Constructions, Standpoints, and Truth in the HumanitiesChapter 7: The Humanities and Political AimsChapter 8: Progress in the HumanitiesChapter 9: Replication in the HumanitiesChapter 10: The Future of the Philosophy of the Humanities BibliographyIndex