Day: February 12, 2013
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Transforming Computer Science into a Humanities Subject, by Alan N. Shapiro
In his book What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture, Slingerland argues persuasively that the “French theory” which has dominated university humanities studies in recent decades has serious flaws – like disembodiment and cultural relativism – that need to be corrected by infusions from the cognitive and natural sciences.