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Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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

Scholarly Works - Books

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

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

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 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

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

Poetic Closure

Book · 1974 Featured Publication Cite

Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

Book · 1968 Featured Publication Cite