McCarty (humanities computing, Kings College London) has lectured and published widely on the intellectual foundations for humanities computing. In this text, he offers professionals in the humanities and social sciences an examination of the method of humanities computing from several angles. From an analytical perspective, he explores the fundamental dependence of computing systems on explicit, delimited conceptions of the world or models of it. He then examines the synthesis of new scholarly forms and the new library in which they are placed and used. Next he considers the disciplinary environment within which humanities computing does its work, discusses the discipline of computer science, and recommends an agenda for those in the field. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions of the most challenging kind. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer in our intellectual life, and outlines an agenda for the field to which individual scholars across the humanities can contribute. 02 Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions of the most challenging kind. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer in our intellectual life, and outlines an agenda for the field to which individual scholars across the humanities can contribute. Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions of the most challenging kind. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer in our intellectual life, and outlines an agenda for the field to which individual scholars across the humanities can contribute.
