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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?
List of contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Philosophy of the Humanities: What and Why?
- Chapter 2: The Objects of the Humanities
- Chapter 3: The Epistemic Goals of the Humanities
- Chapter 4: Authority and Deference in the Humanities
- Chapter 5: Methods and Interpretation in the Humanities
- Chapter 6: Perspectives, Social Constructions, Standpoints, and Truth in the Humanities
- Chapter 7: The Humanities and Political Aims
- Chapter 8: Progress in the Humanities
- Chapter 9: Replication in the Humanities
- Chapter 10: The Future of the Philosophy of the Humanities
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
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 the Faculty 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).
