Integrating the Human Sciences: Enhancing Progress and Coherence across the Social Sciences and Humanities

ISBN-13: 9781032230177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Rick Szostak

Opis

What if we recognized that human sciences collectively investigate a few dozen key phenomena that interact with each other? Can we imagine a human science that would seek to stitch its understandings of this system of phenomena into a coherent whole? If so, what would that look like?

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Research in Human Science  3. Connecting to Other Suggestions for Reform of the Human Sciences  4. Research in Human Science Fields  5. Teaching in Human Science  6. Reorganizing Our Libraries  7. Informing Public Policy  8. Administering Transformation; Transforming Administration  9. Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Rick Szostak is Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta. He is the author of 20 books, 60 journal articles, and dozens of book chapters and encyclopedia articles across a dozen fields, especially economic history, world history, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and future studies.