Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics - Couverture rigide

Epple, Moritz; Imhausen, Annette; Müller, Falk

 
9783593509778: Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3593509776 ISBN 13 : 9783593509778
Editeur : Campus Verlag, 2020

Synopsis

Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. Weak Knowledge aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientific findings but in their strength as accessible resources. The authors show how, throughout history, many bodies of research have become precarious due to a host of factors. These factors have included cultural or social disinterest, feeble empirical evidence or theoretical justifications, and a lack of practical applications in a given field's findings. This book brings together cases from a range of historical periods and disciplines, ranging from personal medicine to climatology, to illuminate the specific forms, functions, and dynamics of so-called "weak" bodies of knowledge.

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À propos de l?auteur

Moritz Epple is professor of the history of science at Goethe University, Frankfurt.

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Éditeur
Campus Verlag
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3593509776
ISBN 13 
9783593509778
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
620
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Personne responsable
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