Edward Slingerland: University of British Columbia Department of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition

Calls to “vertically integrate” (Tooby & Cosmides) or achieve “consilience” (E.O. Wilson) between the sciences and the humanities have, for the most part, been received with a great deal of hostility by humanists. This talk explores some of the reasons–good, bad, and unavoidable–for this hostility, and sketches an outline of what might profitably be called a “second wave” of consilience, one that would help to bring about a more amicable relationship between the “two cultures.”
http://www.bec.ucla.edu/EdSlingerland.pdf