Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago
Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago
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二十年前我们忘记理论化的研究实践
DOI：
10.1525/rep.2014.127.1.64
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
0.4
通讯作者：
T. Underwood
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作者：
T. Underwood
自从学者们开始依靠全文搜索来绘制档案以来，定量方法一直是人文学科的核心。但是，人文主义者习惯于将算法视为任意工具，这使得搜索技术的智力含义变得不透明。为了更好地、更有创造性地反思我们可用的解释学选项，人文主义者可能需要与那些将算法理解为原则性认识论理论的学科进行匡威。换句话说，我们需要计算机科学，不是作为工具的来源，而是作为理论的对话者。
Quantitative methods have been central to the humanities since scholars began relying on full-text search to map archives. But the intellectual implications of search technology are rendered opaque by humanists’ habit of considering algorithms as arbitrary tools. To reflect more philosophically, and creatively, on the hermeneutic options available to us, humanists may need to converse with disciplines that understand algorithms as principled epistemological theories. We need computer science, in other words, not as a source of tools but as a theoretical interlocutor.