Do The Humanities Create Knowledge?

There is a widely held belief that the only kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief is often coupled with the notion that scientific knowledge is obtained when a scientist follows a highly refined and rigorous investigative procedure known as the scientific method. However upon closer examination, what we know as "the scientific method" rests fundamentally on the use of highly refined human judgment directed toward certain questions about the natural world. In this book Chris Haufe argues that this dependence on human judgment is at the heart of deep affinities between scientific knowledge and humanists' creative endeavors, and that both the natural sciences and the humanities are in fact involved in the production of different forms of disciplinary knowledge. His book takes readers behind the scenes to show them the unexpected unity underlying our efforts to understand our experiences. 9781316512500 1316512509 263 Philosophy NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L2DdEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Chris Haufe
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Dec 07, 2023
• • Number of Pages: 264 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1316512509
• • ISBN-13: 9781316512500