On Discovery: How Knowledge Is Produced Across the Disciplines - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009596594 ISBN 13 : 9781009596596

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

How is new knowledge produced in the social, natural, and biomedical sciences? What is the role of serendipity versus planning? How has technology changed knowledge production, from AI to large datasets? This book presents insights into the pursuit of new knowledge from fields as diverse as medicine, engineering, linguistics, and theology. Over twenty researchers and scientists describe the modalities of discovery in their disciplines, offering a diverse survey of the social norms and politics of knowledge. Written in nontechnical language, this collection is designed to make research practices from widely different domains comprehensible to each other. A generative synthesis in the final chapter offers new insights into how discovery happens and its consequences for science and society. On Discovery will be essential reading for anyone interested in philosophical and social dimensions of knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Jansen is a Distinguished Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the immediate past president of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He is a curriculum theorist with work on the politics of knowledge in schools and universities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009596594
• ISBN 13: 9781009596596
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 325
• Éditeur: Jansen Jonathan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie