Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences

Truth, Dialogue, and Historical Consciousness
2. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-936-9
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Amsterdam University Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bouquet, Mary

Meijer, Annemieke

Sanders, Cornelus

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 D.gen – 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.akula

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

Über Autor(innen)

Meijer, Annemieke
Annemieke Meijer was trained as an eighteenth-century scholar and is currently the director of UCU’s Writing programme.

Sanders, Cornelus
Cornelus Sanders is a dermatologist at the University Medical Centre Utrecht and the fellow of Medical Science at University College Utrecht.

Bouquet, Mary
Mary Bouquet is anthropologist, associate professor, and fellow at Utrecht University College.