Book contents
- Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?
- Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 What Would the Community Think?
- Chapter 3 Canon and Consensus
- Chapter 4 Knowing What Matters
- Chapter 5 In Defense of How Things Seem
- Chapter 6 Reading What Lies Within
- Chapter 7 Humanities Victorious?
- Chapter 8 Of Interest
- Chapter 9 The Hoax and the Humanities
- Chapter 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2023
- Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?
- Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 What Would the Community Think?
- Chapter 3 Canon and Consensus
- Chapter 4 Knowing What Matters
- Chapter 5 In Defense of How Things Seem
- Chapter 6 Reading What Lies Within
- Chapter 7 Humanities Victorious?
- Chapter 8 Of Interest
- Chapter 9 The Hoax and the Humanities
- Chapter 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
We tend to think of scientific knowledge as the paradigm case of what knowledge should look like. But the dominant image of science does not reflect what actually goes on in the making of scientific knowledge. Real scientific knowledge relies heavily on human judgment. And it relies heavily on communities.
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- Do the Humanities Create Knowledge? , pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023