Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines - Couverture souple

Kellert, Stephen H.

 
9781459627116: Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1459627113 ISBN 13 : 9781459627116
Editeur : ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological change or conceptual reorganization within their home discipline, and to justify public policies and aesthetic judgments. Using the recent explosion in the use (and abuse) of chaos theory, Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplinesexamines the relationship between science and other disciplines as well as the place of scientific knowledge within our broader culture. Stephen H. Kellert's detailed investigation of the myriad uses of chaos theory reveals serious problems that can arise in the interchange between science and other knowledge - making pursuits, as well as opportunities for constructive interchange. By engaging with recent debates about interdisciplinary research, Kellert contributes a theoretical vocabulary and a set of critical frameworks for the rigorous examination of borrowing.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological change or conceptual reorganization within their home discipline, and to justify public policies and aesthetic judgments. Using the recent explosion in the use (and abuse) of chaos theory, Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplinesexamines the relationship between science and other disciplines as well as the place of scientific knowledge within our broader culture. Stephen H. Kellert's detailed investigation of the myriad uses of chaos theory reveals serious problems that can arise in the interchange between science and other knowledge - making pursuits, as well as opportunities for constructive interchange. By engaging with recent debates about interdisciplinary research, Kellert contributes a theoretical vocabulary and a set of critical frameworks for the rigorous examination of borrowing.

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Éditeur
ReadHowYouWant
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1459627113
ISBN 13 
9781459627116
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
560
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0226429784 ISBN 13 :  9780226429786
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2008
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