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Author Slingerland, Edward G

Title What Science Offers the Humanities : Integrating Body and Culture
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (390 pages)
Contents Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction; TWO WORLDS: THE GHOST AND THE MACHINE; BEYOND DUALISM: TAKING THE BODY SERIOUSLY; VERTICAL INTEGRATION; EMBODIED COGNITION AND THE HUMANITIES; PART I EXORCISING THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE; 1 The Disembodied Mind: Problems with Objectivism; 2 They Live Among Us: Characterizing Postmodernism in the Academy; 3 Pulling the Plug: Laying to Rest Postmodern Epistemology and Ontology; PART II EMBODYING CULTURE; 4 Embodying Culture: Grounding Cultural Variation in the Body; PART III DEFENDING VERTICAL INTEGRATION
Summary This book examines some of the problems facing current approaches to the study of culture
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Subject Philosophy.
Science and the humanities.
Humanity.
Human body.
Caring.
philosophy.
Caring
Human body
Humanity
Philosophy
Science and the humanities
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511386107
0511386109
1281254762
9781281254764