懷疑論 Skepticism--苑舉正 (台大)

source: 臺灣通識網General Education TW           2018年12月5日
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1 29:12 CH01-1. 懷疑論簡介
2 6:02 CH01-2. 懷疑論與倫理學 

3 25:30 CH01-3.古典懷疑論的起源：色諾芬尼
4 1:00:33 CH01-4. 蘇格拉底與懷疑論
5 26:48 CH02-1. 蘇格拉底辯論法的實例
6 24:57 CH02-2. 詭辯學派：引言 
7 22:32 CH02-3. 詭辯學派：柏拉圖的批評
8 28:38 CH02-4. 辯士普達格拉 
9 16:10 CH03-1. 上週回顧 
10 22:55 CH03-2. 相對主義 
11 10:49 CH03-3. 實用主義 
12 44:33 CH03-4. 辯士：高爾吉亞
13 31:13 CH04-1. 柏拉圖與懷疑論
14 52:04 CH04-2. 柏拉圖的理型論 
15 10:58 CH04-3. 以數學例子解釋柏拉圖
16 23:53 CH04-4. 亞里斯多德
17 20:00 CH05-1. 上週回顧
18 25:30 CH05-2. 懷疑論的反對者：亞里斯多德
19 17:40 CH05-3. 亞里斯多德的理論
20 23:53 CH05-4. 對亞里斯多德理論的反省
21 14:09 CH06-1. 課前引言 
22 15:00 CH06-2. 斯多噶學派源起
23 9:38 CH07-1. 懷疑學派簡介
24 26:14 CH07-2. 懷疑學派：阿克西勞斯 
25 20:03 CH07-3. 對斯多噶學派的反彈
26 27:24 CH07-4. 懷疑學派：卡奈阿德斯
27 26:18 CH08-1. 課前引言：經驗學派與方法學派 
28 56:32 CH08-2. 皮若主義的論述
29 16:16 CH08-3. 皮若主義的論述（一）
30 24:11 CH08-4. 皮若主義的論述（二）
31 8:46 CH09-1. 懷疑主義與教條主義
32 33:28 CH09-2. 懷疑論的論證
33 18:17 CH09-3. 懷疑主義與伊比鴆魯學派
34 13:41 CH09-4. 懷疑論的另外五個論證
35 12:45 CH10-1. 奧古斯丁的神學反懷疑論：課前引言
36 17:01 CH10-2. 奧古斯丁的神學反懷疑論：真理、理性與光的理論
37 30:38 CH10-3. 奧古斯丁如何反對懷疑論（一）
38 39:30 CH10-4. 奧古斯丁如何反對懷疑論（二）
39 25:20 懷疑論week14 1知識的三種層面（一）
40 28:49 懷疑論week14 2知識的三種層面（二）
41 36:50 懷疑論week14 3心靈與神光
42 15:35 懷疑論week14 4心靈知識的潛在與實現
43 14:17 懷疑論week15 1蒙恬
44 25:16 懷疑論week15 2蒙恬 自由判斷的哲學（一）
45 12:50 懷疑論week15 3蒙恬 自由判斷的哲學（二）
46 33:04 懷疑論week15 4蒙恬的懷疑論
47 42:59 懷疑論week16 1現代哲學的開展
48 20:50 懷疑論week16 2笛卡兒
49 32:18 懷疑論week16 3笛卡兒的懷疑方法（一）
50 33:44 懷疑論week16 4笛卡兒的懷疑方法（二）
51 17:29 懷疑論week17 1課前引言
52 26:22 懷疑論week17 2休謨
53 13:39 懷疑論week17 3休謨的「人性論」
54 35:50 懷疑論week17 4休謨的懷疑論

活用哲學 Philosophy in Practice--苑舉正

source: 臺灣通識網General Education TW        2018年12月4日
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1 29:03 CH01-1. 哲學是什麼(一) 課程簡介
2 30:18 CH01-2. 哲學是什麼(一) 哲學的起源
3 22:17 CH01-3. 哲學是什麼(一) 蘇格拉底的特殊之處 
4 33:18 CH01-4. 哲學是什麼(一) 蘇格拉底的哲學典範 
5 24:36 CH02-1. 哲學是什麼(二) 上週回顧
6 36:19 CH02-2. 哲學是什麼(二) 先蘇哲學 
7 29:53 CH02-3. 哲學是什麼(二) 可以從先蘇哲學的發展學到什麼？
8 28:33 CH02-4. 哲學是什麼(二) 從自然哲學到人的哲學
9 32:46 CH03-1. 知識論(一) 知識在研究什麼 
10 42:02 CH03-2. 知識論(一) 笛卡兒 
11 22:46 CH03-3. 知識論(一) 笛卡兒哲學的特色 
12 26:57 CH03-4. 知識論(一) 笛卡兒的懷疑方法
13 27:18 CH04-1. 知識論(二) 英國經驗主義 
14 29:54 CH04-2. 知識論(二) 承襲洛克的休謨
15 14:56 CH04-3. 知識論(二) 康德的反擊
16 27:32 CH04-4. 知識論(二) 概念化的應用 
17 36:46 CH05-1. 形上學(一) 為什麼世界是現在的模樣？
18 26:32 CH05-2. 形上學(一) 形上學初探 
19 19:39 CH05-3. 形上學(一) 什麼是形上學 
20 30:46 CH05-4. 形上學(一) 霍布斯的唯物論
21 20:06 CH06-1. 形上學(二) 心物問題與自由意志
22 20:49 CH06-2. 形上學(二) 心物問題的來源 
23 22:02 CH06-3. 形上學(二) 有爭議但目前最好的立場：一元論 
24 15:25 CH06-4. 形上學(二) 自由意志與決定論
25 20:31 CH07-1. 科學哲學 課前引言：科學的本質 
26 27:12 CH07-2. 科學哲學 科學發展史
27 23:12 CH07-3. 科學哲學 社會科學與自然科學的區別
28 32:55 CH07-4. 科學哲學 否證論 
29 20:51 CH08-1. 倫理學&醫學中的倫理面向(一) 課前引言
30 31:04 CH08-2. 倫理學&醫學中的倫理面向(一) 三種道德理論
31 29:49 CH08-3. 倫理學&醫學中的倫理面向(一) 功利主義
32 31:46 CH08-4. 倫理學&醫學中的倫理面向(一) 義務論 
33 13:06 CH09-1. 倫理學&醫學中的倫理面向(二) 德行倫理學
34 30:22 CH09-2. 倫理學&醫學中的倫理面向(二) 康德理論、功利主義與德行倫理學總評
35 13:41 CH09-3. 倫理學&醫學中的倫理面向(二) 醫學中的倫理面向 生命的決擇1 
36 24:14 CH09-4. 倫理學&醫學中的倫理面向(二) 醫學中的倫理面向 生命的決擇2
37 14:25 CH10-1. 政治與社會科學哲學(一) 課前引言 
38 49:23 CH10-2. 政治與社會科學哲學(一) 社會政治哲學
39 11:14 CH10-3. 政治與社會科學哲學(一) 放任資本主義的批判 
40 27:14 CH10-4. 政治與社會科學哲學(一) 馬克斯的社會主義
41 13:44 CH11-1. 政治與社會科學哲學(二) 上週回顧
42 22:08 CH11-2. 政治與社會科學哲學(二) 盧梭生平 
43 22:24 CH11-3. 政治與社會科學哲學(二) 社會契約論
44 28:24 CH11-4. 政治與社會科學哲學(二) 盧梭的公共意志
45 33:07 CH12-1. 藝術哲學(一) 藝術與藝術家的特質
46 24:05 CH12-2. 藝術哲學(一) 不認同人為世界 
47 49:10 CH12-3. 藝術哲學(一) 美感是主觀的還是客觀的
48 22:18 CH12-4. 藝術哲學(一) 藝與與哲學的結合
49 6:03 CH13-1. 藝術哲學(二) 上週回顧 /
50 28:56 CH13-2. 藝術哲學(二) 柏拉圖對藝術的批判 
51 26:48 CH13-3. 藝術哲學(二) 亞里斯多德對藝術的捍衛 
52 22:25 CH13-4. 藝術哲學(二) 現代藝術的否定性
53 15:05 CH14-1. 宗教哲學 宗教經驗 
54 29:55 CH14-2. 宗教哲學 存在主義：祈克果 
55 17:40 CH14-3. 宗教哲學 祈克果的批判 
56 26:41 CH14-4. 宗教哲學 上帝存在的證明

自由社會中的科學 Science in a Free Society / 苑舉正

source: GET 臺灣通識網General Education TW-開放式課程   2016年4月21日
完整課程-臺灣通識網:http://get.aca.ntu.edu.tw/getcdb/hand...

1 1:34:51 CH 1. WHAT IS SCIENCE / 苑舉正
2 1:32:47 CH 2. SOCRATES SFS 2ND WEEK / 苑舉正
3 1:37:46 CH 3. 自由社會中的蘇格拉底 / 苑舉正
4 1:36:07 CH 4. SFS_FEYERABEND / 苑舉正
5 1:42:37 CH 5. 相對主義與自由社會 / 苑舉正
6 1:31:55 CH 6. THE TYRANNY OF SCIENCE:THE START / 苑舉正
7 1:26:38 CH 7. THE TYRANNY OF SCIENCE:IMMUTABLE LAW AND EXPE... 
8 1:33:05 CH 8. THE TYRANNY OF SCIENCE:THEORY AND MONOTHEISM
9 1:37:39 CH 9. THE TYRANNY OF SCIENCE:OVERCOMING PROBLEMS
10 1:38:44 CH 10. THE TYRANNY OF SCIENCE:THE DISCOVERY OF TACIT... 
11 1:38:43 CH 11. THE TYRANNY OF SCIENCE:THE DISCOVERY OF TACI... 

About the Work | School of Drama

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source: The New School    2017年2月22日
Part of the Guest Artist series at School of Drama, The New School (http://newschool.edu).
Through Company Residencies, Workshops and About the Work interviews School of Drama (http://www.newschool.edu/drama) students have significant opportunities to engage and work with a wide and distinguished range of visiting performing artists and creators.

About the Work: David Hyde Pierce | School of Drama 1:06:26
Jeremy Irons 1:11:52
Cherry Jones 1:23:02
Eric Bogosian 56:21
James Lapine 53:15
Billy Crudup 59:37
Adrienne C. Moore 49:02
Donald Margulies 58:36
Daniel Sullivan 53:34
Wallace Shawn & Deborah Eisenberg 57:36
Robyn Goodman 59:02
Lucie Arnaz 1:12:37
Josh Hamilton 1:01:01
Neil LaBute 1:07:03
Mandy Patinkin 58:56
Ethan Hawke 1:00:39
Tonya Pinkins 55:58
Moises Kaufman 51:16
Tommy Kail 1:00:59
Daphne Rubin-Vega 50:53
Holland Taylor 50:56
Dael Orlandersmith 50:01
Cynthia Nixon 1:04:41
Christopher Abbott 52:00
Lisa Kron 56:18
Jason Kim 43:48

2017 Dean's Honor Symposium at Eugene Lang College

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source: The New School    2017年5月11日
Each year, the Eugene Lang College (http://newschool.edu/lang/) community gathers to celebrate our thoughtful, dedicated, and engaged students. We recognize high-achieving, academically rigorous students as well as their unique and groundbreaking work, from nesting oysters in the Hudson to learning Khmer in Cambodia.
Dean's Honors Symposium
The Lang College Dean’s Honor Symposium is a conference for students to present their academic work and co-curricular projects to the Lang community. Participating students applied to present their work in the fall semester. The work shows a range of academic disciplines and inter-disciplines; furthermore, many explore critical histories as well as contemporary social issues because at Lang, social justice is at the core of our liberal arts education. Projects range from rigorous academic writing, to civic engagement and social justice work, to creative projects, to exemplary work outside of Lang such as through internships or work experiences.
The New School | http://newschool.edu
Faculty:
- Ken Wark, Chair, Culture and Media
Students:
- James Malzone
- Mark Suciu
Location: John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center
63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY 10003
Monday, April 24, 2017 at 2:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Three Lessons from the Avant Garde  48:06
Optimizing Profits, Wellness and Accountability 47:28
Mapping Gender onto the Divine Body 55:10
The Call for Transformative Justice 51:00
How Cultural Legacy Spans the Globe 43:25
Deconstructing Representation 51:57

Christopher Fynsk, The Library at Home. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures    2017年3月3日
http://www.egs.edu Christopher Fynsk, Maurice Blanchot Chair, Professor of Philosophy, and Dean of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at The European Graduate School / EGS.. Saas-Fee August 9 2016.
Christopher Fynsk’s academic profile includes extensive administrative experience (he has served as chair, head of school, dean and trustee) and high academic achievement through articles, translations, and books treating topics in modern Continental philosophy and literature. He has held academic positions in North America, France, and the UK (Scotland), and has fifteen years of experience at The European Graduate School / EGS. He is best known for his writings on Martin Heidegger and Maurice Blanchot, but has also made significant contributions in the area of philosophy of language and to questions relating to the politics of philosophy (and its institutions). He is also actively involved in the philosophy of education and currently writes on the topic of rhythm.
Christopher Fynsk received his doctorate from the Department of Romance Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1981, following a Diplôme d’Etudes Avancées in Philosophy from the University of Strasbourg. He also received an MA in English from the University of California, Irvine, in 1976, and an MA in French at Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He taught at the University of Strasbourg from 1985 to 1987, and from 1981 to 2004 he worked as professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy, co-director of the Philosophy, Literature and the Theory of Criticism Program and as chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at State University of New York at Binghamton. From 1995–1997, Chris Fynsk was the chair of the Modern Language Association, Division of Philosophical Approaches to Literature. In 2004, he moved to the University of Aberdeen to join the faculty of the School of Language and Literature, and formed the Centre for Modern Thought.
In his critical writings, which breach the barriers separating philosophy, literary theory, and art criticism, Christopher Fynsk is deeply engaged with the question of the possibility of language and how the human relation to Being is sketched out through literary and philosophical texts and art works. In Infant Figures, he follows a path to the realm of this question through a dialogical meditation on two texts, one by Maurice Blanchot and one by Jacques Lacan, which confront the limits of language in saying the death of a child. In the text, which is partitioned into three suggestively aligned parts in the manner similar to a Francis Bacon triptych, Christopher Fynsk follows an inquiry of the material limits of symbolic representation. The inquiry is called by 'the exigency of the figure', a primal exposure of the human being antecedent to speech and memory which opens it to the possibility of language. In order to risk the entry into this problematic, he finds it necessary to adopt an unconventional method which navigates 'between discursive orders' in a way which is theoretically akin to the methods of psychoanalysis.

Religious Freedom (Lecture Series at Berkley Center)

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Religion and Development (Lecture Series at Berkley Center)

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Religion, Violence, and Peace (Lecture Series at Berkley Center)

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Religion and Culture in Dialogue (Lecture Series at Berkley Center)

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Seminars 2015 - Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research

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source: Oxford Martin School   2015年10月15日
Demographic change – the evolving health challenges 1:26:24
Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change? 1:16:12
Facing the unknown: the future of humanity 1:19:31
Mind the gap: inequality and its impacts 1:29:49
Understanding emerging infections 1:05:34
Creating the perfect human? The ethics of enhancement 1:27:56
Prevent and protect: vaccines and immune responses 1:01:49
Climate prediction in the 2020s 1:21:22

Ancient Cities, Modern Inquiries: Contemporary Debates Focusing on Africa and the Middle East

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source: Yale University  2016年12月5日
Recordings from the 2016 Summer Institute for Teachers, offered by Yale University’s Programs for International Education Resources (PIER).
For more information, please visit: http://pier.macmillan.yale.edu/summer-institute

Kenneth Harl - Orientation and Introduction to the Ancient World 1:10:35
Roderick McIntosh - Why Study African Cities? 59:40
Steven Garfinkle - Commerce, Communication, and State Formation: Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia 1:01:06
Eric Cline - The Collapse of Cities and Civilizations at the End of the Late Bronze Age 1:01:35
Steven Tuck - Summing It All Up: Lessons from Ancient Cities for the Modern City Designer/Dweller 48:57
Martin J. Murray - Re-Urbanism in Africa: Building Cities from Scratch 59:01
Garth Myers - Looking at US Cities from Urban Africa 59:03

Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal

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Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - touch 4:05
Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - taste 4:51
Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - smell 8:00

Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - sight & sound 4:27

The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective

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The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 3 56:45
The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 2 53:28
The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression and Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 52:16

Garth Risk Hallberg | Organized Complexity: The Novel and the City | Rad...

source: Harvard University     2016年12月7日
The writer Garth Risk Hallberg explores the affinities between the modern social novel and the modern city. From Dickens’s London to Richard Wright’s Chicago, from the Paris of Les Misérables to the Boston of The Bostonians, the two have developed in parallel. But for a novelist, the relationship goes deeper than content.
(50:05) Following his lecture, Hallberg participates in a conversation with the novelist Claire Messud RI '05, a senior lecturer on fiction at Harvard University. Messud’s books include The Woman Upstairs (Knopf, 2013),and The Emperor’s Children (Knopf, 2006).
Moderated by Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, a 20th-century urban historian whose book, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), won the Bancroft Prize in American History.
This is a 2016–2017 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture.

Enlightenment Lectures (at the University of Edinburgh: 2008-2015)

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source: The University of Edinburgh      上次更新日期：2015年12月1日
Global leaders in politics, philosophy, science and economics examine aspects of the Enlightenment's legacy in the context of our own fraught and hectic times.

Julia Marton-Lefèvre - The Promise of 2015: Hopes for a New Environmental Enlightenment 1:17:23
Prof. Sir John Beddington - Legacies of the 20th Century and Challenges for the 21st 1:16:04
Prof. Lord Robert Winston - Medicine, Ethics and Society 1:08:57
Prof. Mary Robinson - Human Rights in the Modern World 1:07:13
Prof. Stefan Collini - From Belles-Lettres to Eng-Lit: Criticism and its Publics 1:16:17
Prof. Aubrey Manning - Population: Can We Begin to Talk Sensibly? 1:25:22
Prof. Amartya Sen - David Hume and the Demands of Ethics 1:25:18
Jon Snow - A changing media in a changing world 1:08:45
Steve Jones Enlightenment Lecture - Is Human Evolution Over?' 1:15:33
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz: Globalisation and the 21st Century Enlightenment 1:07:21
Irene Khan: The War on Terror, A War on Liberty? 59:27
Prof. Daniel Dennett: Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will? 1:23:38

Magic and Initiatory Practices of Ancient Egypt with Normandi Ellis

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年4月14日
Normandi Ellis is coauthor, with Nicki Scully, of The Union of Isis and Thoth: Magic and Initiatory Practices of Ancient Egypt. Her other books include Imagining the World into Existence: an Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness; Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt; and Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Here she describes ancient teaching associated with awakening the body of light. The pharaohs, who were considered gods, were given instruction in how to commune with the divine realms. She distinguishes between the shadow body (khaibet) and the light body (sahu). She describes the esoteric process by which she and Nicki Scully created an imaginal temple as a home for the Egyptian neteru – or deities. She vividly explains how the neteru have become living presences within her mind.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on March 18, 2016)

Pig Out – Hogs and Humans in Global and Historical Context

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source: Yale University    2016年9月20日
This international conference, held October 16-18, 2015 at Yale University was an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural endeavor to understand how pigs have worked their way into human communities, urban and rural. Organized collaboratively by the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies, the Duke University Women Studies’ Program and the Yale Sustainable Food Program, it aimed to examine the full biological, ecological, historical, and symbolic complexity of a single species, pigs, in multiple socio-historical contexts. The conference was facilitated by external sponsors, the Animal Welfare Trust and the Agricultural History Society along with on-campus partners, including the MacMillan Center and various area studies councils at Yale.

Pig Out Panel 1: Porcine Pre-History: Domestication 1:32:54
Pig Out Panel 2: Pork, Religion, and Identity 1:27:48
Pig Out Panel 3: Pigs in the City 53:34
Pig Out Panel 4: Small-Scale Swine 1:08:45
Pig Out Panel 5: Human-Hog Labor Ecologies 1:22:08
Pig Out Panel 6: Imperial Swine and Settler Colonialism 43:20
Pig Out Panel 7: Intimacy with Pigs 20:24

Sustainable Management of Change – The Science of Preserving Cultural Heritage

source: Yale University 2016年8月3日
Introduction into preservation of cultural heritage as sustainable management of change, vision and mission of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Studies on authenticity, fake and forgery detection, sustainable preservation in times of crisis, man-made natural disasters and climate change. Stakeholder involvement as key criteria to sustainability.
Presented by Stefan Simon, Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

The New Naturalism I: Cognitive Machinery by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

source: Yale University    2014年12月12日
Dwight H. Terry Lectureship October 17, 2006 The New Naturalism I: Cognitive Machinery
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University. She also holds the position of Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.
After initially training in biology, experimental psychology, and philosophy at City College in New York, Smith attended Brandeis University, where she received her doctorate in English and American Literature. Before joining the faculty at Duke in 1987, she taught at Bennington College and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she held the position of University Professor. Her current teaching and research focus on twentieth century reconceptions of knowledge and science, contemporary accounts of language and cognition, the relations between the sciences and the humanities, and the naturalistic tradition in the study of religion.

Professor Smith has authored and edited a number of books and articles on language, literature, and critical theory, including Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End (1968), On the Margins of Discourse: The Relation of Literature to Language (1978), and Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory (1988). Her most recent books are Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy (1997) and Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human (2006).
She is a past president of the Modern Language Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2001, she was named an honorary fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for distinguished contributions to…a common scientific and humanistic understanding of knowledge and its advancement."