Philosophy and the Voice of the Humanities
Are the humanities harder to know than the sciences? Last year, the historian of science Lorraine Daston wondered why it is that there is “no epistemology of the humanities that is even remotely comparable to the epistemology of the sciences.” Why don’t we have more fleshed-out accounts of the “ref...
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European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
2024
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| Summary: | Are the humanities harder to know than the sciences? Last year, the historian of science Lorraine Daston wondered why it is that there is “no epistemology of the humanities that is even remotely comparable to the epistemology of the sciences.” Why don’t we have more fleshed-out accounts of the “refined ways of knowing” that define humanistic inquiry? Given that for centuries the practices now grouped together as “the humanities” set the agenda for “what knowledge was worth having” and “how t... |
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