{"product_id":"writing-the-liberal-arts-and-sciences-truth-dialogue-and-historical-consciousness-9789463729369","title":"Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences: Truth,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting from informal cross-disciplinary conversations between colleagues, this volume is the result of an experiment in understanding the standpoints and methodologies of others in a multidisciplinary setting. At its heart are the core values of a liberal arts education: intellectual curiosity and the ability to communicate across borders. Written with the aim of communicating academic content to non-specialists, the essays interweave narratives about truth with various kinds of dialogue and the importance of historical consciousness. Together they illustrate the power of writing as a tool for strengthening a scholarly community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A treasure trove of inventive, accessible, and deeply thoughtful writing, that ranges from astrophysics to anthropology, from literature to law, and from politics to public health. These are essays very much in the spirit of Montaigne: wise and witty, their open, exploratory, and at times personal approach make them ideal for classroom discussion. They offer us opportunity and space for valuable reflection and learning, and remind us that the liberal arts and sciences must be at the heart of debates about the human condition and the world’s most important and pressing concerns.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eProfessor Ian Gadd, Academic Director of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA)\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The classroom is where important but complex issues are explained in accessible form and language. This book offers its readers a crash course in such essential topics as truth, language, the law, religion, statistics, and history, but you don’t have to stick to a school timetable and there is no exam afterwards. It’s a feast for the mind; enjoy!”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMaarten Prak, Emeritus Professor of History at Utrecht University and first chair of the Board of Studies at University College Utrecht\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences \u003cbr\u003e Mary Bouquet, Annemieke Meijer and Cornelus Sanders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I Truth\u003cbr\u003e The indispensable Truth : Postmodernism and the possibility to understand each other \u003cbr\u003e Floris van der Burg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fictionality, or the importance of being earnest \u003cbr\u003e Agnes Andeweg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And Justice for All \u003cbr\u003e Alexis A. Aronowitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Handling tricky questions \u003cbr\u003e Jocelyn Ballantyne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What is Meaning? \u003cbr\u003e Gaetano Fiorin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II Dialogue\u003cbr\u003e Parmenides and D.gen – an encounter \u003cbr\u003e Chiara Robbiano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On being a doctor \u003cbr\u003e Cornelus Sanders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Law, imagination, and poetry \u003cbr\u003e Bald de Vries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Religion 2.0: Thinking about religion through technology \u003cbr\u003e Katja Rakow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Global mental health and the evolution of clinical psychology \u003cbr\u003e Robert Dunn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Heroes of the in-between \u003cbr\u003e Rozi Tóth and Gerard van der Ree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III Historical Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e What history’s most overqualified calculus student tells us about liberal arts mathematics \u003cbr\u003e Viktor Blåsjö\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Statistics: The art of seeking sense in numbers \u003cbr\u003e Guus de Krom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The canon of the Netherlands revisited \u003cbr\u003e James Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Love thyself: An abridged history of Western portraiture \u003cbr\u003e Tijana .akula\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two Monuments \u003cbr\u003e Mary Bouquet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The challenge of living on renewable energy \u003cbr\u003e Anton E.M. van de Ven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The earth as an observatory: Team work in science \u003cbr\u003e Filipe Freire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The First Assignment \u003cbr\u003e Markha Valenta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors \u003cbr\u003e List of figures \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index of names \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473245638999,"sku":"9789463729369","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789463729369.jpg?v=1744905844","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-the-liberal-arts-and-sciences-truth-dialogue-and-historical-consciousness-9789463729369","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}