Creating Consilience

Introduction Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard Creating Consilience: Toward a Second Wave Part I: Theoretical Issues Section One: Ontologies for the Human Ch. 1The humanities and human nature Ch. 2 The meta-physical realities of the un-physical sciences: Why vertical integration seems un-realistic to ontological pluralists Ch. 3 Mind-body dualism and the two cultures Ch. 4 On the psychological origins of dualism: Dual-process cognition and the explanatory gap Section Two: Consilience Through The Lens of Anthropology Ch. 5 From studious irrelevancy to consilient knowledge: Modes of scholarship and cultural anthropology Ch. 6 Whence and whither sociocultural anthropology Ch. 7 Unconsilience: Rethinking the two-cultures conundrum in anthropology Part II: Case Studies Section Three: Culture Ch. 8 Culture in songbirds and its contribution toward the evolution of new species Ch. 9 When does psychology drive culture? Ch. 10 Quantifying the importance of motifs on Attic figure-painted pottery Ch. 11 Agents, intelligence, and social atoms Section Four: Religion Ch. 12 Evolutionary Religious Studies (ERS): A beginner's guide Ch. 13 The cultural evolution of religion Ch. 14 The importance of being "Ernest" Section Five: Morality Ch. 15 We're all connected: Science, ethics and the law Ch. 16 The evolution of a sense of morality Ch. 17 Behavioral ethics Ch. 18 Interdisciplinary education and knowledge translation programs in neuroethics Section Six: Literature and Oral Traditions Ch. 19 "'Once the child is lost he dies": Monster stories vis-a-vis the problem of errant children Ch. 20 "By weapons made worthy": a Darwinian perspective on Beowulf Ch. 21 Palaeolithic politics in British novels of the Nineteenth Century Ch. 22 Language, cognition and literature Afterword "Two Points About Two Cultures" Appendix "Integrating Science and the Humanities" List of talks and workshop participants