Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences

Mary Bouquet • ebook • epub

• Samenvatting
  Starting from informal cross-disciplinary conversations between colleagues, this volume is the result of an experiment in understanding the standpoints and methodologies of others in a multidisciplinary setting. At its heart are the core values of a liberal arts education: intellectual curiosity and the ability to communicate across borders. Written with the aim of communicating academic content to non-specialists, the essays interweave narratives about truth with various kinds of dialogue and the importance of historical consciousness. Together they illustrate the power of writing as a tool for strengthening a scholarly community.
  
  “A treasure trove of inventive, accessible, and deeply thoughtful writing, that ranges from astrophysics to anthropology, from literature to law, and from politics to public health. These are essays very much in the spirit of Montaigne: wise and witty, their open, exploratory, and at times personal approach make them ideal for classroom discussion. They offer us opportunity and space for valuable reflection and learning, and remind us that the liberal arts and sciences must be at the heart of debates about the human condition and the world’s most important and pressing concerns.” - Professor Ian Gadd, Academic Director of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA)
  
  “The classroom is where important but complex issues are explained in accessible form and language. This book offers its readers a crash course in such essential topics as truth, language, the law, religion, statistics, and history, but you don’t have to stick to a school timetable and there is no exam afterwards. It’s a feast for the mind; enjoy!” - Maarten Prak, Emeritus Professor of History at Utrecht University and first chair of the Board of Studies at University College Utrecht
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Epub
  Auteur : Mary Bouquet
  Bestandstype : epub
  Distributievorm : Ebook (digitaal)
  Aantal pagina's : Afhankelijk van e-reader
  Beveiliging : Adobe DRM   Informatie 
  Uitgeverij : AUP Educatief
  ISBN : 9789048555086
  Datum publicatie : 09-2021
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  Mary Bouquet is anthropologist, associate professor, and fellow at Utrecht University College.
  Annemieke Meijer was trained as an eighteenth-century scholar and is currently the director of UCU’s Writing programme.
  Cornelus Sanders is a dermatologist at the University Medical Centre Utrecht and the fellow of Medical Science at University College Utrecht. Table of Contents
  Acknowledgements
  Introduction: Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences
  Mary Bouquet, Annemieke Meijer and Cornelus Sanders
  
  I Truth
  The indispensable Truth : Postmodernism and the possibility to understand each other
  Floris van der Burg
  
  Fictionality, or the importance of being earnest
  Agnes Andeweg
  
  And Justice for All
  Alexis A. Aronowitz
  
  Handling tricky questions
  Jocelyn Ballantyne
  
  What is Meaning?
  Gaetano Fiorin
  
  II Dialogue
  Parmenides and Dōgen – an encounter
  Chiara Robbiano
  
  On being a doctor
  Cornelus Sanders
  
  Law, imagination, and poetry
  Bald de Vries
  
  Religion 2.0: Thinking about religion through technology
  Katja Rakow
  
  Global mental health and the evolution of clinical psychology
  Robert Dunn
  
  Heroes of the in-between
  Rozi Tóth and Gerard van der Ree
  
  III Historical Consciousness
  What history’s most overqualified calculus student tells us about liberal arts mathematics
  Viktor Blåsjö
  
  Statistics: The art of seeking sense in numbers
  Guus de Krom
  
  The canon of the Netherlands revisited
  James Kennedy
  
  Love thyself: An abridged history of Western portraiture
  Tijana Žakula
  
  Two Monuments
  Mary Bouquet
  
  The challenge of living on renewable energy
  Anton E.M. van de Ven
  
  The earth as an observatory: Team work in science
  Filipe Freire
  
  The First Assignment
  Markha Valenta
  
  List of contributors
  List of figures
  Notes
  Index of names
  
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