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Wild Knowledge : Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment.
Title:
Wild Knowledge : Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment.
Author:
Wright, Will.
ISBN:
9780816684243
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Ecological Incoherence -- ONE: The Desperate Privilege of Science -- TWO: Belief Systems -- THREE: Nature as Politics -- FOUR: The Mathematics of Knowledge -- FIVE: The Knowing Individual -- SIX: Scientific Social Theory -- SEVEN: The Dilemma of Rationality -- EIGHT: The Reference to Language -- NINE: The Ecology of Language -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Science is an incoherent form of knowledge, and, despite technical proficiency, it is conceptually wrong, wrong about nature, and wrong about knowledge" (p. 3). With this radical premise, Will Wright's intentions in this book are to challenge the.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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