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In Ian Morris’s Big History, the Future Looms Large

March 24, 2013 by parrymarc

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Categories: article • Tags: classics, history, humanities, ian morris, profile, social science, Stanford

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Raymond Tallis Takes Out the ‘Neurotrash’

October 11, 2011 by parrymarc

My latest Chronicle story is a profile of the physician-philosopher Raymond Tallis. The scrappy British polymath aims to cure academe of two illnesses: “Neuromania” and “Darwinitis.” Neuromania is the notion that to understand people you must peer into the “intracranial darkness” of their skulls with brain-scanning technology. Darwinitis is the idea that Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory can explain not just the origin of the human species—a claim Tallis enthusiastically accepts—but also the nature of human behavior and institutions. Tallis’s opponents call him […]

Categories: article • Tags: Darwin, evolution, humanities, neuroscience, Philosophy, Raymond Tallis, social science

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The Humanities Go Google: Big Data Comes to the Humanities, And It Could Bring Sweeping Changes in How People “Read” and Study Them

May 8, 2010 by parrymarc

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Categories: technology • Tags: big data, digital humanities, English, Franco Moretti, google, google books, higher education, humanities, literature, Matt Jockers, research, Stanford, technology

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