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Borrowed knowledge : chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines /
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 cha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226429806 9780226429809 1282070363 9781282070363 9786612070365 6612070366 |