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Tables of Contents for Human Sciences
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
6
Some Fundamental Concepts
7
6
PART I: INSTITUTIONS, PROFESSIONS, AND IDEAS
A Bronze Age Scribal Culture: A Sociological Fable With An Implicit Moral
13
12
Brain work and state formation
13
4
The first intellectuals
17
3
Scribal ``humanism''
20
5
Classical Antiquity
25
26
The rise of philosophy
26
6
From the Sophists to Aristotle
32
11
The epoch of Hellenization
43
3
The impact of Christianity
46
5
The Middle Ages
51
30
An era of renascences
51
4
The Central Middle Ages (750 to 1050)
55
5
The age of the Liberal Arts
60
6
The rise of universities
66
3
Aristotelianism
69
4
The compromise
73
3
The fourteenth century
76
3
The post-medieval university
79
2
The Renaissance
81
26
Renaissance and Humanism
81
5
The wider context
86
5
Humanist scholarship, pedantry, and the humanities
91
5
A ``Scientific Renaissance''?
96
11
The Early Modern Epoch And Classicism
107
20
A shifting centre of gravity
107
1
Courtly culture and classicism
108
4
From scientific to philosophical revolution
112
7
Scholarly and theoretical activity
119
3
The problem of the Baroque
122
5
The Enlightenment
127
20
The appearance of the ``public sphere''
127
2
The Enlightenment movement and its workers
129
6
General themes and accomplishment
135
6
Philosophy redefined
141
2
Enlightenment and Revolution
143
4
The Nineteenth Century
147
18
The institutionalization of unbounded scientific quest
147
3
The German university reform and the humanities
150
4
``Positive knowledge''
154
4
Popularized science and popular science
158
4
Academic and non-academic humanities
162
3
Toward The Present: Scientific Humanities
165
8
Bibliographic Essay
173
8
PART II: HUMAN SCIENCE AND HUMAN ``NATURE''
Cognitive Interests
181
10
Anthropologies
191
4
Theories of Created Man
195
18
Determination by the body
195
6
Environmental determination
201
3
Sociologisms
204
1
Weberian sociology: an example
205
2
Structuralisms
207
2
Functionalism
209
4
Humanity As Freedom
213
6
The early Sartre: freedom as an absolute principle
213
3
The elusive connection: freedom versus explanation
216
3
Toward Synthesis: Human Nature As Dialectic And History
219
10
Dialectic
219
4
Summing up
223
6
PART III: THE ART OF KNOWING An Essay on Epistemology in Practice
Introductory Observations
229
6
Philosophy and the problem of knowledge
231
4
A Piagetian Introduction To The General Problem Of Knowledge
235
22
Schemes and dialectic
237
3
The periods
240
8
Supplementary observations
248
4
The status of schemes and categories
252
5
The Nature And Demarcation Of Scientific Knowledge
257
20
A pseudo-historical introduction to some key concepts
259
4
Empiricism and falsificationism
263
5
Instrumentalism and truth
268
5
Instruments or models?
273
4
A New Approach: Theories About The Scientific Process
277
40
Popper and Lakatos: theories or research programmes?
277
10
Theories falsified by theories
287
4
The limits of formalization
291
4
Kuhn: Paradigms and finger exercises
295
5
The structure of scientific development
300
6
Collective and individual knowledge
306
3
Two kinds of ``logic''
309
1
Objections and further meditations
310
7
Truth, Causality, And Objectivity
317
16
Truth
317
5
Causality
322
6
Objectivity, subjectivity, and particularism
328
5
The Role Of Norms
333
24
Logic and norms
334
2
Explanations of morality
336
3
Morality, language and social practice
339
2
Knowledge, norms and ideology
341
4
Value relativism and value nihilism
345
1
Institutional imperatives
346
6
Theoretical versus applied science
352
1
Further norms, contradictions, contradictory interpretations
353
4
The Theory of Interdisciplinary and Applied Science
357
16
Know-how and know-why
357
2
The acquisition of theoretical knowledge
359
5
The ``Scientific-Technological Revolution''
364
3
Interdisciplinarity
367
3
Interdisciplinarity in basic research
370
3
Art and Cognition
373
22
Knowing about art
374
1
Knowing in art
375
3
Fresh eyes
378
2
Form versus contents
380
2
Gelsted and Epicuros
382
3
Art as thought experiments
385
2
``Realism''
387
3
Synthetical understanding and practical knowledge
390
5
Abbreviations and Bibliography
395
20
Name and Title Index
415
12
Subject Index
427