Culture Frame: A third-culture journal
Call For Papers: Shifting Foundations of Knowledge
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Submission Deadline August 7th, 2009
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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
