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Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English
Literature
Box 90670, the Program in Literature, Durham, NC 27708
9 Towhee Drive, Topsham, ME 04086

Selected Publications


ANTIREPRESENTATIONALISM BEFORE AND AFTER RORTY

Conference Common Knowledge · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Unloading the self-refutation charge

Journal Article Common Knowledge · January 1, 2019 Full text Open Access Cite

Scientizing the humanities: Shifts, collisions, negotiations

Journal Article Common Knowledge · September 1, 2016 Full text Open Access Cite

Anthropotheology: Latour speaking religiously

Journal Article New Literary History · March 1, 2016 Featured Publication Full text Open Access Cite

What Was "close Reading"?: A Century of Method in Literary Studies

Journal Article Minnesota Review · January 1, 2016 Featured Publication Full text Open Access Cite

On Free-Wheeling Careers

Journal Article the minnesota review · May 1, 2013 In this interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith, known for her important contributions to literary theory and for an unusual interdisciplinary career, interviewer Janell Watson gives a brief account of Smith’s early interests in philosophy and scie ... Full text Open Access Cite

Science and religion, natural and unnatural

Chapter · April 1, 2012 Recent years have seen the publication of a number of books and articles offering specifically cognitive and evolutionary accounts of the origins of religious beliefs (see e.g. Atran 2002, Boyer 2001, Dennett 2006, Lawson & McCauley 1990). These accounts e ... Full text Cite

"Dolls, Demons and DNA"

Journal Article · March 2012 Open Access Cite

Chinese comparisons and questionable acts

Journal Article Common Knowledge · December 1, 2011 Full text Open Access Cite

Clearing up after the science wars: A response to emily A. Schultz

Journal Article Reviews in Anthropology · April 1, 2011 Emily Schultz seeks in "Fear of Scandalous Knowledge" (Schultz 2010) to bring important approaches in science studies, along with recent developments in related fields, to the attention of fellow anthropologists. She also seeks to counter lingering misunde ... Full text Open Access Cite

THE CHIMERA OF RELATIVISM A Tragicomedy

Journal Article COMMON KNOWLEDGE · 2011 Featured Publication Full text Open Access Cite

Natural reflections: Human cognition at the nexus of science and religion

Book · December 1, 2010 Featured Publication In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls "the New Naturalism," ... Cite

“Science and Religion: Lives and Rocks”

Journal Article New York Times · January 2010 ... Cite

Comment

Chapter · February 9, 2009 Cite

"It’s Like Getting Married"

Journal Article · February 2009 Open Access Cite

"Naturalism, Otherwise"

Journal Article The Immanent Frame · June 2008 Cite

"Cognitive Machinery and Explanatory Ambitions"

Journal Article Online Forum, The Immanent Frame · June 2008 Cite

Relativism, Today and Yesterday

Journal Article Common Knowledge · 2007 Cite

Endurance, Otherwise: a Response to Martin Meuller

Journal Article Salmagundi · 2007 Cite

Scandalous knowledge: Science, truth and the human

Book · January 1, 2006 Featured Publication This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science. Smith reviews the key issues involved in the twentieth-century critiques of trad ... Cite

Animal relatives, difficult relations

Journal Article Differences · March 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Animal Ralatives, Difficult Relations,"

Journal Article Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies · 2004 Cite

Reply to an analytic philosopher

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · January 1, 2002 Full text Open Access Cite

Netting Truth

Conference PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · October 2000 Full text Cite

Review of Brian Cantwell Smith, *On the Origin of Objects*

Journal Article Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society · 1999 Cite

On the Origin of Objects. Brian Cantwell Smith

Journal Article Isis · December 1998 Full text Cite

"Is it Really a Computer?"

Journal Article Times Literary Supplement · February 1998 Cite

"Evaluation" and "Value"

Journal Article · 1998 Cite

How the mind works

Journal Article TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT · 1998 Cite

Review of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto’s *Truth: A History*

Journal Article The Times Literary Supplement · October 1997 Cite

Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory

Book · March 4, 1997 Featuring a distinguished group of international contributors, this volume engages themes and issues central to current theoretical debates in virtually all disciplines: agency, causality, determinacy, representation, and the social ... ... Cite

The Hermeneutic Circle

Journal Article PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · May 1996 Full text Cite

The Hermeneutic Circle

Journal Article PMLA · 1996 Cite

NETWORKS AND SYMMETRIES, DECIDABLE AND UNDECIDABLE - INTRODUCTION

Journal Article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 1995 Cite

Making (Up) the Truth: Constructivist Contributions

Journal Article University of Toronto Quarterly · May 1, 1992 There is, it appears, the appearance of truth, 'verisimilitude,' and, over and against that, the reality of truth, truth itself. Or so it appears, but perhaps it is not true, or not any longer. Certainly, the certification of true truth and genuin ... Full text Cite

Making (Up) the Truth: Constructivist Contributions

Journal Article University of Toronto Quarterly · 1992 Cite

The Unquiet Judge: Activism Without Objectivism in Law and Politics

Journal Article Annals of Scholarship · 1992 Cite

Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge

Journal Article Common Knowledge · 1992 Cite

Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · October 1991 Full text Cite

The Politics of Liberal Education

Book · 1991 Recent developments in American higher education-curricular revisions, 'multiculturalism, ' the challenge to traditional views of 'canons' and 'classics' have become the focus of public attention and controversy across the nation. The Politics of Liberal E ... Cite

The Complex Agony of Injustice

Journal Article Cardozo Law Review · 1991 Cite

ENDURANCE, OTHERWISE A RESPONSE TO MUELLER,MARTIN

Journal Article SALMAGUNDI-A QUARTERLY OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES · 1991 Cite

Judgment After the Fall

Journal Article Cardozo Law Review · 1990 Cite

CULT-LIT, HIRSCH, LITERACY, AND THE NATIONAL CULTURE

Journal Article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 1990 Cite

Issues in Contemporary Literary Education

Journal Article Duke Dialogue · March 1988 Cite

Reply to Lynne V. Cheney

Journal Article MLA Newsletter · 1988 Cite

Curing the Humanities, Correcting the Humanists

Journal Article MLA Newsletter · 1988 Cite

Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory

Book · 1988 Featured Publication A critique of traditional conceptions of value and judgment, primarily in aesthetics and literary studies but also in communication theory, ethics, and epistemology. ... Link to item Cite

Value Without Truth-Value

Journal Article · 1987 Cite

Value/Evaluation

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · 1987 Cite

VALUE/EVALUATION

Journal Article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 1987 Cite

Towards the Practice of Theory

Journal Article · 1984 Cite

Standards and Judgments: A Post-Axiological Essay

Journal Article Tamking Review · 1984 Cite

Contingencies of Value

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · 1983 Cite

Narrative Versions, Narrative Theories

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · 1980 Featured Publication Cite

Fixed Marks and Variable Constancies: A Parable of Literary Value

Journal Article Poetics Today, reprinted in Hebrew translation, Siman Kriya, Summer 1981 · 1979 Cite

Surfacing from the Deep

Journal Article PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature · 1977 Cite

On the Margins of Discourse

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · 1975 Cite

Poetic Closure

Book · 1974 Featured Publication Cite

Women Artists: Some Muted Notes

Journal Article Journal of Communications · 1974 Cite

Review of Paul Hernandi, *Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification*

Journal Article Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1973 Cite

The New Imagism

Journal Article Midway: A Magazine of Discovery in the Arts and Sciences · 1969 Cite

Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

Book · 1968 Featured Publication Cite

’Sorrow’s Mysteries’: Keat’s ’Ode on Melancholy’

Journal Article Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 · 1966 Cite