Timothy Harfield

Timothy Harfield

Greater Ocala Area
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About

Philosopher, author, data scientist, marketer, product person, and community advocate.

Experience

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    ORO Labs

    United States

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    Greater Ocala Area

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    Greater Ocala Area

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    Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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    Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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    Atlanta Metropolitan Area

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    Washington DC-Baltimore Area

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    Atlanta, GA

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    Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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    Greater Atlanta Area

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    Edmonton, Canada Area

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    Edmonton, Canada Area

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    Edmonton, Canada Area

Education

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Publications

  • The Occations of Community: Giambattista Vico and the Concept of Society

    Wipf and Stock

    In The Occasions of Community, Timothy D. Harfield explores several questions about the nature of society with important consequences for the history of the social sciences. What were the conditions that made it possible for our modern idea of society to emerge? What was it about the modern view of society that made the discipline of sociology possible? Is Vico's masterwork, The New Science, rightly praised as an important work of early sociology? Or does Vico's interest in the work of divine…

    In The Occasions of Community, Timothy D. Harfield explores several questions about the nature of society with important consequences for the history of the social sciences. What were the conditions that made it possible for our modern idea of society to emerge? What was it about the modern view of society that made the discipline of sociology possible? Is Vico's masterwork, The New Science, rightly praised as an important work of early sociology? Or does Vico's interest in the work of divine providence betray the fact that, for all Vico's brilliance as a thinker, The New Science was not yet modern?

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  • Teaching the Unteachable: On The Compatibility of Learning Analytics and Humane Education

    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge

    This paper is an exploratory effort to find a place for learning analytics in humane education. After distinguishing humane education from training on the basis of the Aristotelian model of intellectual capabilities, and arguing that humane education is distinct by virtue of its interest in cultivating prudence, which is unteachable, an account of three key characteristics of humane education is provided. Appealing to thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, it is argued that ingenium, eloquence…

    This paper is an exploratory effort to find a place for learning analytics in humane education. After distinguishing humane education from training on the basis of the Aristotelian model of intellectual capabilities, and arguing that humane education is distinct by virtue of its interest in cultivating prudence, which is unteachable, an account of three key characteristics of humane education is provided. Appealing to thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, it is argued that ingenium, eloquence, and self-knowledge constitute the what, how, and why of humane education. Lastly, looking to several examples from recent learning analytics literature, it is demonstrated that learning analytics is not only helpful as set of aids for ensuring success in scientific and technical disciplines, but in the humanities as well. In order to function effectively as an aid to humane education, however, learning analytics must be embedded within a context that encourages continuous reflection, responsiveness, and personal responsibility for learning.

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  • Exposing Humanism: Prudence, Ingenium, and the politics of the Posthuman

    Journal of Historical Sociology

    This article examines posthumanism and its relationship to humanism. First, it is argued that the term “posthumanism” relies upon an incomplete conception of humanism, and in a way that forecloses the possibility of looking to the humanist tradition for support. Addressing Foucault's often quoted comments about the recent invention and imminent demise of man, it is argued that Foucault is not anti-humanist, but is rather critical of the use of humanism as an axis of reflection. Second, the…

    This article examines posthumanism and its relationship to humanism. First, it is argued that the term “posthumanism” relies upon an incomplete conception of humanism, and in a way that forecloses the possibility of looking to the humanist tradition for support. Addressing Foucault's often quoted comments about the recent invention and imminent demise of man, it is argued that Foucault is not anti-humanist, but is rather critical of the use of humanism as an axis of reflection. Second, the posthumanist perspective is summarized as attending to a set of interrelated ethical and epistemological concerns. Calling into question the boundary between human and nonhuman animals, posthumanism also challenges the primacy of empirico-deductive reasoning and advocates a re-legitimization of rhetoric as a mode of thought. Lastly, using Ernesto Grassi's interpretation of the early Italian humanists, this article demonstrates not only the compatibility of Renaissance humanism with posthumanist concerns, but also the fruitfulness of this tradition as a conceptual resource. Although the Renaissance notion of ingenium, the ability to adapt and make concrete situations meaningful without also affirming strong ontological commitments, is absent from posthumanist discourse, it is a concept that has the power to enrich the posthumanist project. Consequently, posthumanism is not actually at odds with the humanist tradition in general, but rather only with a very limited and relatively recent conception.

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  • Regional Governance Explored: A Review of the Edmonton Capital Region

    Comparative Analysis of Key Transformational Issues

    Other authors
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  • The Art of MEMORIA: Vico, Bacon, and the Frontispiece to the New Science [MA Thesis]

    University of Alberta

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  • Eros and the Other: An Analysis of the Self in Love [BA Thesis]

    University of Alberta

Honors & Awards

  • Top 100 Product Marketing Influencer

    Product Marketing Alliance

  • Italian Language and Culture Course Scholarship

    Instituto Italiano di Cultura in Vancouver

  • Laney Graduate School Arts & Sciences Fellowship

    Emory University, Laney Graduate School

  • President’s Scholarship Award

    Providence College

  • Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship

    Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

  • Alberta Advanced Education Achievement Graduate Student Scholarship

    Province of Alberta

  • Best Essay Prize

    University of Alberta, “Present(ing) the Past: Knowledge, Power and the Practice of History and Classics” (History and Classics Graduate Student Association)

    for “Alterity and the (im)Possibility of Ethical Oral History”

  • Graduate Assistantship Award

    University of Alberta, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research / Office of the Vice President (Research)

  • J. Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award

    University of Alberta, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research

  • Graduate Assistantship Award

    University of Alberta, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research / Office of the Vice President (Research)

  • Graduate Intern Tuition Supplement

    University of Alberta, Department of Sociology

  • Graduated with First Class Honors (Bachelor of Arts)

    University of Alberta

  • University of Alberta Master’s Scholarship

    University of Alberta, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research / Department of Sociology

  • The Edmonton Section of the National Council of Jewish Women Prize

    University of Alberta, Department of Sociology, Endowed by the Edmonton Section, Council of Jewish Women

  • The Sören Bovbjerg Memorial Scholarship

    University of Alberta, Department of Sociology, Anonymous Endowment

  • First Prize, Undergraduate Essay Contest

    University of Alberta, Department of Sociology

    for “Cleaner than Clean: The Myth of Soap”

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