Conceptual Foundations for Multidisciplinary Thinking - Couverture rigide

Kline, Stephen Jay

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804724091 ISBN 13 : 9780804724098

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Our current intellectual system provides us with a far more complete and accurate understanding of nature and ourselves than was available in any previous society. This gain in understanding has arisen from two sources: the use of the 'scientific method', and the breaking up of our intellectual enterprise into increasingly narrower disciplines and research programs. However, we have failed to keep these narrow specialities connected to the intellectual enterprise as a whole. The author demonstrates that this causes a number of difficulties. We have no viewpoint from which we can understand the relationships between the disciplines and lack a forum for adjudicating situations where different disciplines give conflicting answers to the same problem. We seriously underestimate the differences in methodology and in the nature of principles in the various branches of science. This provocative and wide-ranging book provides a detailed analysis and possible solutions for dealing with this problem.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804724091
• ISBN 13: 9780804724098
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible