Borrowed knowledge: chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines
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1. Verfasser: Kellert, Stephen H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
What was chaos theory, and why would people want to borrow it? -- Disciplinary pluralism -- The rhetorical functions of borrowing and the uses of disciplinary prestige -- Motivating methodological change -- Metaphorical chaos -- How to criticize a metaphor -- Facts, values, and intervention -- Beautiful chaos? -- Postmodern chaos and the challenge of pluralism
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 Know
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 292 pages)
ISBN:0226429784
0226429806
1282070363
9780226429786
9780226429809
9781282070363

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