Crimes Against Humanities Now science wants to invade the liberal arts. Don't let it happen.
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- September 3, 2013
- Publisher
- New Republic
- Retrieved
- Dec 10, 2013
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Appreciate the Beauty of Wrong Ideas
Pinker tiresomely rehearses the familiar triumphalism of science over religion: “the findings of science entail that the belief systems of all the world’s traditional religions and cultures ... are factually mistaken.” So they are, there on the page; but most of the belief systems of all the world’s traditional…
The Humanities are About "Inwardness"
It is the irreducible reality of inwardness, and its autonomy as a category of understanding, over which Pinker, in his delirium of empirical research, rides roughshod. The humanities are the study of the many expressions of that inwardness. Pinker’s condescension to the humanities is endless. He proposes for the…