Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago

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ID4885362
AuthorsTed Underwood (0000-0001-8960-1846, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume127
Issue1
Pages64-72
Publication date2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRepresentations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/rep.2014.127.1.64
OpenAlexW2048496095
LanguageEN
Citations received19

Quantitative methods have been central to the humanities since scholars began relying on full-text search to map archives. But the intellectual implications of search technology are rendered opaque by humanists' habit of considering algorithms as arbitrary tools. To reflect more philosophically, and creatively, on the hermeneutic options available to us, humanists may need to converse with disciplines that understand algorithms as principled epistemological theories. We need computer science, in other words, not as a source of tools but as a theoretical interlocutor

Converse · Data science · Epistemology · Habit · Humanism · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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