Humanities

The humanities cluster — five active libraries.

LibraryWhat it coversNotes
PhilosophyMetaphysics + ontology, epistemology, ethics + moral philosophy, philosophy of mind + language, philosophy of science, AI ethics5 T1 + Tier 2 in progress
HistoryAncient, medieval, early-modern, modern history; historiography + methods; WWII deep dive5 T1 + WWII deep
LinguisticsPhonetics + phonology, syntax + grammar, semantics + pragmatics, historical + typology, sociolinguistics + applied, formal semantics deep5 T1 + formal semantics deep
AnthropologyCultural, biological, archaeology foundations, paleoanthropology + ancient DNA3 T1 + paleo-aDNA deep
ReligiousStudiesComparative religion, Abrahamic, Dharmic, East Asian, Indigenous + NRMs, Islamic jurisprudence + theology5 T1 + Islamic jurisprudence deep

Cross-cutting _compare_* notes

Synthesis notes that compare paradigms, methods, or schools across multiple libraries within the Humanities cluster.

NoteWhat it covers
_compare_epistemic-frameworksEmpiricism 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
  • 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