Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities

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New York, US: OUP Usa. Edited by Edward Slingerland & Mark Collard (2012)
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This volume takes a new approach to bridging the cultures of science and the humanities. The editors and contributors formulate how to develop a new shared framework of consilience beyond mere interdisciplinarity, in a way that both sides can accept.

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9780199794393   019979569X

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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794393.001.0001

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On the psychological origins of dualism: Dual-process cognition and the explanatory gap.Brian Fiala, Adam Arico & Shaun Nichols
The Humanities and Human Nature 1.  (pages 44-55)Steven Pinker
The Metaphysical Realities of the Unphysical Sciences: Or Why Vertical Integration Seems Unrealistic to Ontological Pluralists 1.  (pages 56-73)Richard A. Shweder
Mind-Body Dualism and the Two Cultures.  (pages 74-87)Edward Slingerland
On the Psychological Origins of Dualism: Dual-Process Cognition and the Explanatory Gap.  (pages 88-109)Brian Fiala, Adam Arico & Shaun Nichols
From Studious Irrelevancy to Consilient Knowledge: Modes of Scholarship and Cultural Anthropology 1.  (pages 112-129)Pascal Boyer
Whence and Whither Sociocultural Anthropology.  (pages 130-139)Harvey Whitehouse
Unconsilience: Rethinking the Two-Cultures Conundrum in Anthropology.  (pages 140-158)Bradd Shore
Culture in Songbirds and Its Contribution to the Evolution of New Species.  (pages 162-178)Darren E. Irwin
When Does Psychology Drive Culture?  (pages 179-193)Olivier Morin
Quantifying the Importance of Motifs on Attic Figure-Painted Pottery.  (pages 194-204)Peter Schauer
Agents, Intelligence, and Social Atoms.  (pages 205-222)Alex Bentley & Paul Ormerod
Evolutionary Religious Studies: A Beginner's Guide.  (pages 224-242)David Sloan Wilson & William Scott Green
The Cultural Evolution of Religion.  (pages 243-265)Ara Norenzayan & Will M. Gervais
The Importance of Being “Ernest”.  (pages 266-281)Robert N. McCauley
We’re All Connected: Science, Ethics, and the Law.  (pages 284-298)Stephen Stich
The Evolution of a Sense of Morality.  (pages 299-317)Dennis L. Krebs
Behavioral Ethics.  (pages 318-333)Herbert Gintis
Interdisciplinary Education and Knowledge Translation Programs in Neuroethics.  (pages 334-348)Daniel Buchman, Sofia Lombera, Ranga Venkatachary, Kate Tairyan & Judy Illes
“ Once the Child is Lost He Dies ”: Monster Stories vis-a-vis the Problem of Errant Children.  (pages 350-371)Michelle Scalise Sugiyama & Lawrence S. Sugiyama
“By Weapons Made Worthy”: A Darwinian Perspective on Beowulf.  (pages 372-384)Raymond Corbey & Angus Mol
Palaeolithic Politics in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century.  (pages 385-408)Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John A. Johnson & Daniel Kruger
Language, Cognition, and Literature.  (pages 409-423)Barbara Dancygier
Afterword.  (pages 424-431)Geoffrey Galt Harpham

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