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[ecrea] Culture Frame- CFP

Mon May 11 21:07:25 GMT 2009



Culture Frame: A third-culture journal
Call For Papers:  Shifting Foundations of Knowledge

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Submission Deadline August 7th, 2009

<http://www.cultureframe.org/>http://www.cultureframe.org

Culture Frameâ??s inaugural call-for-papers would like to address what
it regards as a historical shift in the foundations of knowledge. The 20th century was marked by scientific development and implementation, especially in physics, chemistry, biology, as well as technological expansion.



This remarkable century transformed engagements with the scientific method. The result of scientific and technological impact on human culture and identity, from the automobile to antibiotics, from the double helix to the atomic bomb, is now evident in almost every moment of every day.



Twentieth-century culture, unlike previous centuries, became more intertwined and dependent upon scientific ways of knowing and empirical methodologies than any previous time in human history. Culture Frame would like to take the next step and explore how the impact of the last century is leading to the adoption of new foundations for methodologies of knowing in the humanities and traditionally non-scientific disciplines, as well as how the scientific disciplines are reaching out to speak to the masses that are responsible for founding their claims of knowledge using either discernible methodologies or by
the aesthetic, relativistic, and intuitive judgments.

Shifting Foundations encourages papers on topics that address questions like-
? Is the scientiific method now the bedrock of knowledge, in general, as
opposed to traditional humanistic methodologies?
? How can a completely causal methhodology be applicable to humanistic
disciplines, such as art and literature; fields that are predicated upon the
notion of creativity and spontaneity and freedom?
? Can reliance upon scientific methodology bee considered progress or is this
an inevitable epistemological cul-de-sac?
? Has this new reliance upon a particular methodology irreverssibly changed
the direction of human culture and what it means to know, what it means
to be human?
? What opportunities arise from thiis foundational shift and what valuable
aspects of humanity may be lost due to its perspective?

Papers on the shifting foundations of knowledge in the sciences and humanities
will help define the new direction being taken not only by scientists and
humanists in the twenty-first century, but by the general public that is now more reliant than ever on ways of knowing for their own ends in a competitive world.

Please submit by August 7th, 2009.

See the website for full submission details.
Thomas Philbeck, PhD
New York Institute of Technology

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