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humanities

5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Cambridge University

British research university founded in 1209 — one of the world's oldest and most prestigious — whose philosophy, classics, and natural science departments have trained many of the thinkers referenced in Jonathan Bi's work.

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Rice University

Rice University in Houston Texas — a small private research university known for its science and engineering programs but also housing Jeff Kripal's J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought — the institutional home of Kripal's work on mysticism and parapsychology.

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The Superhumanities

Jeff Kripal's 2022 manifesto arguing that the humanities need to take seriously the anomalous experiences that have always been their primary subject — and that doing so requires expanding the humanities into what Kripal calls the 'superhumanities' where consciousness, paranormal experience, and academic rigor converge.

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Durham University

Durham University is a public research university in Durham, England, founded in 1832. It is one of the UK's leading universities, known for its collegiate system (modelled partly on Oxford and Cambridge), and its strengths in theology, philosophy, archaeology, and sciences.

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Springer

Springer (now Springer Nature) is one of the world's largest academic publishers, founded in Berlin in 1842 and now publishing over 3,000 journals and 200,000 book titles across science, technology, medicine, and the humanities. It merged with Nature Publishing Group to form Springer Nature in 2015.

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