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| Research Interests for Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Research Interests: critical theory; epistemology and philosophy of science; social studies of science; issues in science and religion; relations between sciences and humanities
Smith's past research has been concerned with literary theory, poetry and poetics, ideas of value and judgment, and intellectual controversies over science and knowledge. Her current work focuses on developments in cognitive science and the philosophy of biology, intellectual issues involving science and religion, and the historical, intellectual and institutional relations between the sciences and the humanities. - Keywords:
- epistemology , philosophy of science, science studies, science and religion, 20th-century intellectual history, humanities and sciences
- Current projects:
- Critical and historical study of efforts by humanities scholars to import ideas, models, methods and aims from the natural sciences into their own disciplines.
- Areas of Interest:
- epistemology
philosophy of science
developments in cognitive science
developments in philosophy of biology
sociology and history of science
issues in science and religion
relations between sciences and humanities
20th-century intellectual history
- Representative Publications
- Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion, The Terry Lectures Series
(Winter, 2009), Yale University Press [book.asp]
- Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human
(2005/2006), Edinburgh UP/Duke UP [books.php3]
- Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy
(1997), Harvard UP
- Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory
(1988), Harvard UP
- Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End
(1968), U of Chicago P
- Relativism, Today and Yesterday, Special double issue, “A ‘Dictatorship of Relativism?’: The Intellectual Community Responds to Cardinal Ratzinger’s Last Homily”.,
Common Knowledge, vol. 13 no. 2-3
(Summer, 2007),
pp. 227-249
- Reply to an Analytic Philosopher,
South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 101 no. 1
(Winter, 2002)
- Nathan Schneider and BHS, “Religion, Science, and the Humanities: An Interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith”,
The Immanent Frame
(June 21, 2010) [the-humanities/]
- “Science and Religion: Lives and Rocks”,
New York Times
(January 25, 2010) [religion-lives-and-rocks/>] [abs]
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