Wild Knowledge: Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment
Mega Sale! Save 22% on the Wild Knowledge: Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment by Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press at Translate This Website. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. Will Wright argues that scientific knowledge - and specifically physics, as the fundamental science - is primarily an effort at social legitimation, and that its conceptual incoherence as knowledge is now becoming ecological incoherence as social practice. In this argument he attacks the scientific notions of nature, mathematics, the mind and social life, and concludes that the idea of knowledge must be understood ecologically and reflexively as an issue of language, rather than objectively and
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Will Wright argues that scientific knowledge - and specifically physics, as the fundamental science - is primarily an effort at social legitimation, and that its conceptual incoherence as knowledge is now becoming ecological incoherence as social practice. In this argument he attacks the scientific notions of nature, mathematics, the mind and social life, and concludes that the idea of knowledge must be understood ecologically and reflexively as an issue of language, rather than objectively and technically as an issue of nature.
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| Manufacturer: | Univ Of Minnesota Press |
| Brand: | Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press |
| Publisher: | Univ Of Minnesota Press |
| Studio: | Univ Of Minnesota Press |
| EAN: | 9780816620517 |
| Item Weight: | 0.7 pounds |
| Item Size: | 0.6 x 9 x 9 inches |
| Package Weight: | 0.7 pounds |
| Package Size: | 6.06 x 0.58 x 0.58 inches |
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