The Walrus: science-humanities integration
“INTO THIS DIVIDE steps Edward Slingerland, co-founder of the University of British Columbia’s new Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture. Writers on evolution issues are usually scientists, but Slingerland is one of a newer generation—following in the footsteps of philosopher Daniel Dennett—whose training is in the humanities, but who have turned to science for answers no longer provided by their disciplines of origin. In What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture, Slingerland proffers an olive branch, arguing that each side must reach out to the other to prevent the university from succumbing to overly hostile diversity.”
Mark Czarnecki, “The Other Darwin,” The Walrus, September 12th 2008.