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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.