Epistemology Shock: English Professors Confront Science

Authors

  • Ian Barnard Chapman University
  • Jan Osborn Chapman University

Keywords:

epistemologies, interdisciplinarity, scientism, pedagogy, Cartesian Construction

Abstract

This article raises questions and concerns regarding students from the sciences working with faculty in the humanities in interdisciplinary settings. It explores the experience of two English professors facing the privileging of "facts" and a science-based understanding of the world in their own classrooms. It poses both questions and pedagogical possibilities for addressing conflicts around epistemologies, scholarship, and teaching and learning.

Author Biographies

Ian Barnard, Chapman University

Ian Barnard is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of English, and director of the LGBTQ Studies program at Chapman University. Ian is the author of Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer Theory (Peter Lang, 2004) and Upsetting Composition Commonplaces (Utah State University Press, 2014). Email: barnard@chapman.edu. Website: ianbarnard.weebly.com.

Jan Osborn, Chapman University

Jan Osborn is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the English Department at Chapman University and a founding member of the Humanomics Program in the Economic Science Institute. Jan is the author of Community Colleges and First-Generation Students (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). Email josborn@chapman.edu.

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Published

2017-11-26

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 1 (2017): Winter/Spring 2017

Section

Articles

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