No Future without Humanities: Literary Perspectives

Larsen, Svend Erik; Bassnett, Susan; Segal, Naomi; Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl; Baetens, Jan; Lombardo, Patrizia; D’haen, Theo

doi:10.3390/h4010131

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“…Researchers discuss a very broad assortment of technical topics such as Rech and Althoff [51] who explore the next trends of artificial intelligence and software engineering that have many commonalities. Larsen and others forecast incoming challenges in DH and emphasize the role that the humanist culture will play [50]. Charikar and colleagues [52] address the document clustering optimization problem in order to enhance the performance of IR while 'big data' is a new challenge topic of inquiry for IR [53].…”

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Searching the Identity of Information Systems: A Study from Interdisciplinary Contexts

Rocchi

Resca

2018

Smart Working, Living and Organising

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Purpose: The present paper addresses the problem of the information systems (IS) identity, in particular it makes an attempt to identify the intellectual causes that hinder the research about the core of IS and suggests how to remove them. Design/methodology/approach: Authors who argue on the cultural core of IS sometimes relate this argument to the 'reference disciplines' of IS such as economics and sociology. Authors rarely examine what happens in parallel domains of knowledge usually labeled as 'cognate disciplines' of IS. We fixed to extend inquiries on the close domains, in particular we have analyzed the literature of artificial intelligence, information retrieval, medical informatics, digital humanities and software engineering. Findings: Bibliographical evidence shows how these disciplines struggle with the 'identity crisis' as IS do; more precisely thinkers share non-trivial difficulties when they argue about broad topics connected to the information technology such as the possibilities and limits of computer systems, the transfer and diffusion of technology etc. Research implications: We recall how normally philosophy and science progress side to side and cooperate. Instead, the modern literature shows how computer science illustrates all the technical details but does not provide effective explanations to philosophers of post-computation disciplines. Several narrow theories underpin computer systems that prove to be futile to thinkers who address broad arguments. An apparent cause-effect relationship emerges between the fragmentary notions of computer science and the current 'identity crisis' of IS and cognate disciplines. Originality/value: This study leads to a ground-breaking conclusion. In the first stage, the solution to the identity problem should not be searched inside IS but outside. As soon as possible noteworthy efforts should be made in order to improve the theoretical basis of informatics. More precisely computing theorists should develop a unified cultural frame or, at least, should make significant progress toward this direction.

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Searching the Identity of Information Systems: A Study from Interdisciplinary Contexts

Rocchi

Resca

2018

Smart Working, Living and Organising

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“…The sciences are not competitors, but complementary actors to the humanities (and perhaps vice versa as well), and both natural, material facts and literary reflections simply make up the corresponding sides of the same coin, that is, us as people in our existence [17][18][19][20]. As a group of scholars/scientists now rightly underscores: "We recognize that science is able to monitor, measure and to some extent predict the biogeophysics of global change.…”

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The Meaning of Literature and Literature as Meaning—A Productive Challenge of Modern Times from the Middle Ages

Classen

2016

Humanities

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Abstract:The marriage of literature and science might not be possible strictly speaking, but a marriage of humanities with philosophy, psychology, religion, ethics, ecology, and social studies, for instance, might well work, as a close analysis of some medieval narratives will illustrate. This paper intends to demonstrate once again what the humanities could truly mean, insofar as the discussion will not only lay bare textual elements or philological concerns, but it will also indicate how much relevant literature helps us to address crucial questions of religious, ethical, social, moral, and philosophical kinds, building powerful bridges between the past and the present. In order to test this premise even in extreme situations, here a number of medieval texts will be introduced and analyzed as to their timeless message and hence their extremely important function of creating meaning for readers/listeners both from the Middle Ages and today.

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Empowering minority students: a study of cultural references in the teaching content

Aasebø

Willbergh

2022

Journal of Curriculum Studies

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No Future without Humanities: Literary Perspectives

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

Searching the Identity of Information Systems: A Study from Interdisciplinary Contexts

Searching the Identity of Information Systems: A Study from Interdisciplinary Contexts

The Meaning of Literature and Literature as Meaning—A Productive Challenge of Modern Times from the Middle Ages

Empowering minority students: a study of cultural references in the teaching content

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