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Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning Across Disciplines
Stephen H. Kellert
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Description for Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning Across Disciplines
Hardcover. Using the explosion in the use of chaos theory, this book examines the relationship between science and other disciplines as well as the place of scientific knowledge within our broader culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: PBWS; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
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 Disciplines" examines the relationship between science and other disciplines ... Read more
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 Disciplines" examines the relationship between science and other disciplines ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226429786
SKU
V9780226429786
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99-15
About Stephen H. Kellert
Stephen H. Kellert is professor of philosophy at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Reviews for Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning Across Disciplines
"Over the next several decades, we will continue to see the issues raised in Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines as important to understanding both the natural and human sciences." - Douglas Kiel, University of Texas at Dallas"