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4. 3. Wilson, Consilience, 8; William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History (London: Harrison and Co., 1840), xxxix.
5. 4. Geoffrey Galt Harpham, afterword to Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities, ed. Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 425. The consilience effort has also provoked focused criticism of its specific disciplinary iterations. See Jonathan Kramnick, “Against Literary Darwinism,” Critical Inquiry 37, no. 2 (Winter 2011): 315-47, as an instance of the pointed reaction against consilient thinking in literature departments, where proponents of consilience are known as literary Darwinists.