14 - Rutgers University - Experiments in the Humanities Conference 10/27/09 Part 14

Experiments in the Humanities features two world-renowned humanists interested in bringing empirical methods to bear on longstanding questions in their disciplines: Stephen Stich, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers will discuss how research in cognitive science can advance and transform traditional philosophical debates, especially in moral theory. Franco Moretti, Professor of English at Stanford, will discuss how quantitative analysis can illuminate our understanding of the novel, especially questions of plot.

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• Stephen Stich
• Franco Moretti
• Experiments in the Humanities
• humanities
• philosophy
• cognitive science
• stanford
• rutgers