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One definition of the humanities is provided in the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act
The term “humanities” includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern andclassical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history,criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; andthe study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverseheritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.
The social sciences, as they are understood in this report, are actually more difficult to define. The AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies represents “interpretive” social sciences, that is, social sciences that are more qualitative thanquantitative in their methods. But the Commission is not interested in staking out territory, nor does it seem necessary that thereshould be a one-to-one correspondence between disciplines and commissions or their reports: indeed, the twenty-seven reports oncyberinfrastructure currently listed on the NSF Web page devoted to “Cyberinfrastructure and Its Impacts”
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