Institute for advanced studies - IAS
09.04.2019
Jean-Guy Meunier is Professor of philosophy in Digital humanities at the University of Quebec in Montreal, invited by IDHN
Research in the academic field called “Humanities" modifies the interpretative practices into a computer engineering of meaningful artifacts such as texts, arts, media, rituals, etc. This achievement is quite a challenge if the transformation is embedded only in the classical positivist or even empiricist visions of scientific practices . But if it is seen from the more contemporary epistemological pragmatic perspective, then a door opens. In this vision, meaningful artifacts are approached through various, but interrelated models, whether conceptual, formal, computational, computer, or otherwise. And in the case of meaningful artifacts, because it is at the heart of the specialty and the expertise of the Humanities, a conceptual model plays a major and essential role . In such a vision, the conceptual models built in the “Humanities” is no longer isolated and autonomous. It appears as an essential moment of the research on meaningful objects and even more when it interacts with computational models and computer technologies.
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Date: Tuesday 9th April from 12:30 to 14:00
Venue: Maison internationale de la recherche, Neuville-sur-Oise. Access to the MIR
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