Louis Dupré, Dialectical Humanist

Teaching with a Humanist

Michael Servetus Humanist and Martyr

there are not available the textbooks and reference works summarizing the fundamentals of the field as are found in older and more established sciences. Consequently, this reviewer has found it profitable to keep his copies of Progress in Biophysics near at hand as a general reference work. The present volume is a worthy addition, but it is feared that the price will discourage many individuals...

Dialectical responses to questions about dialectical thinking.

Debate about our article on culture and dialectical thinking (Peng & Nisbett, September 1999) exemplifies a thousand-yearold Confucian saying: If the participants in an intellectual discourse have different understandings about the topic in question, then the conversation will surely get difficult. Being the perpetrators who opened this Pandora's box, we feel obligated to clarify some of the co...

tranScriptorium : A Guide for the Humanist

The aim of the tranScriptorium project is to produce software applications that will ‘read’ historical handwritten documents and will produce transcripts for these documents. There are many millions of pages of handwritten documents, the basis for much research in the arts and humanities, and yet the vast majority of this material—including manuscripts that have been digitized—remains inaccessi...

Humanist evaluation Methods in Locative Media design

Media design can be used for research purposes if it includes a clearly defined research question and clear evaluation to see whether an answer to the research question has been found. Using a project with locative media for classical music communication as my example, I discuss common evaluation methods from the User experience field, observing that they all tend to test “interface” and not “c...