Humanities
The humanities cluster — five active libraries.
| Library | What it covers | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | Metaphysics + ontology, epistemology, ethics + moral philosophy, philosophy of mind + language, philosophy of science, AI ethics | 5 T1 + Tier 2 in progress |
| History | Ancient, medieval, early-modern, modern history; historiography + methods; WWII deep dive | 5 T1 + WWII deep |
| Linguistics | Phonetics + phonology, syntax + grammar, semantics + pragmatics, historical + typology, sociolinguistics + applied, formal semantics deep | 5 T1 + formal semantics deep |
| Anthropology | Cultural, biological, archaeology foundations, paleoanthropology + ancient DNA | 3 T1 + paleo-aDNA deep |
| ReligiousStudies | Comparative religion, Abrahamic, Dharmic, East Asian, Indigenous + NRMs, Islamic jurisprudence + theology | 5 T1 + Islamic jurisprudence deep |
Cross-cutting _compare_* notes
Synthesis notes that compare paradigms, methods, or schools across multiple libraries within the Humanities cluster.
| Note | What it covers |
|---|---|
| _compare_epistemic-frameworks | Empiricism vs rationalism vs pragmatism (Philosophy); positivist vs constructivist vs Annales (History); structuralist vs post-structuralist vs cognitive (Linguistics); participant-observation vs ethnomethodology vs critical theory (Anthropology); comparative vs phenomenological vs textual criticism (Religious Studies). Cross-cutting axes: evidence, explanation, researcher subjectivity, historical context, falsifiability vs interpretive depth |
Cross-cutting links to other clusters
- Philosophy ↔ logic — mathematical logic, philosophy of math
- Philosophy ↔ Compute — AI ethics, philosophy of mind for AGI
- Philosophy ↔ Law — political philosophy, ethics of law
- Philosophy ↔ Biology — bioethics, philosophy of biology
- Philosophy ↔ ClimateScience — environmental ethics, intergenerational justice
- History ↔ Economics — economic history, history of capitalism
- History ↔ Biology — Big History, environmental history
- Linguistics ↔ Languages — programming languages and grammars
- Linguistics ↔ transformer-architecture — substrate of modern NLP
- Anthropology ↔ Biology — evolutionary theory; ancient DNA
- Religious Studies ↔ Law — RFRA, religious freedom, comparative religion-state law
Adjacent
- Sciences — philosophy of science overlaps deeply
- Society — ethics + political philosophy + economic history
- Math-and-Compute — logic + AI ethics + computational humanities
- Arts-and-Energy — aesthetics + music + cultural production