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Beyond retrieval? Computer science &
the humanities
♦
Willard McCartyProfessor of Humanities
ComputingKing’s College London
staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/
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CATCH Midterm EventDen Haag
30 November 2007
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1. Chronology & history2. Very recent attempts3. The humanities and method4. Athens and Jerusalem5. The collective6. The analytic7. The synthetic8. CATCH as catch can
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1. Chronology & history2. Very recent attempts3. The humanities and method4. Athens and Jerusalem5. The collective6. The analytic7. The synthetic8. CATCH as catch can
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2006: dhcs2006.uchicago.edu/ 2007: dhcs.northwestern.edu/
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2006: dhcs2006.uchicago.edu/ 2007: dhcs.northwestern.edu/
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TOC
1. Chronology & history2. Very recent attempts3. The humanities and method4. Athens and Jerusalem5. The collective6. The analytic7. The synthetic8. CATCH as catch can
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“[T]he specific problem that the [humanities] present to thought is that one has not rightly grasped their nature if one measures them by the yardstick of a progressive knowledge of regularity…. The individual case does not serve only to confirm a law from which practical predictions can be made. Its ideal is rather to understand the phenomenon itself in its unique and historical concreteness.”
Truth and Method (2000/1960): 4f
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
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“For the object of understanding human events is to sense the alternativeness of human possibility.”
“Possible Castles”, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (1986)
Jerome Bruner (1915--)
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1. Chronology & history2. Very recent attempts3. The humanities and method4. Athens and Jerusalem5. The collective6. The analytic7. The synthetic8. CATCH as catch can
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1. Chronology & history2. Very recent attempts3. The humanities and method4. Athens and Jerusalem5. The collective6. The analytic7. The synthetic8. CATCH as catch can
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TOC
1. Chronology & history2. Very recent attempts3. The humanities and method4. Athens and Jerusalem5. The collective6. The analytic7. The synthetic8. CATCH as catch can
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1. Constructing resources
3. Modelling
of (analytic)
2. Inventing
new genres
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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1. Chronology & history2. Very recent attempts3. The humanities and method4. Athens and Jerusalem5. The collective6. The analytic7. The synthetic8. CATCH as catch can
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1. Constructing resources
3. Modelling
of (analytic)
VR reconstruction: Struder model, St Gall
5.Modelling for
possible worlds
2. Inventing
new genres
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Second Life
4.Modelling
for (synthetic)
Ivanhoe Game
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1. Chronology & history2. Very recent attempts3. The humanities and method4. Athens and Jerusalem5. The collective6. The analytic7. The synthetic8. CATCH as catch can