In this paper I speculatively discuss an array of issues which might become relevant for the digital humanities disciplines in the not-too-far future. Most important is the question whether the digital humanities will simply vanish from the academic curriculum and just become “the” humanities again when the digital computer will simply have become a “normal tool” and a matter of course in all academic disciplines. Nonetheless, the availability of a new tool will surely call for new methodological considerations in the meta-theory of the humanities, such that we will not apply this new tool with wrong expectations about its capabilities. This current situation in the (digital) humanities might perhaps be somewhat comparable to the introduction of the telescope as a new tool into the science of astronomy after the end of the middle-ages, which also gave rise to a number of science-philosophical considerations. For this reason it will become important also for the scholars of the humanities to understand at least in principle what digital computers can do. Last but not least also the central question of the humanities, namely: what is genuinely human?, will become highly relevant again as soon as machines will be able to simulate human capabilities with astonishing similarity.
- Introduzione
- Biodiversità ed ecosistema digitale. Per una filosofia plurilingue e multiprospettica
- Nuovi abiti per la vecchia cerimonia: Aristotele e la narrativa digitale
- La tecnologia wiki come spazio per il dialogo operativo tra filosofia e informatica
- Crisscross ontology: Mapping concept dynamics, competing argument and multiperspectival knowledge in philosophy
- Digit-filosofia o filosofia del digitale?
- Per una teoria critica del digitale: fake-news e postverità alla luce della logica della verosimiglianza
- Macchine?
- I diritti dell’algoritmo: per una ontologia dell’“autorialità digitale”
- Eventi digitali
- Digital Humanities and Trans Humanities – Some Research Problems for the Humanities of the Not-Too-Far Future
- DH: dialogo a più voci