System : The Shaping of Modern Knowledge /

The role that ""system"" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own ""computational universe.""

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siskin, Clifford (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642.
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642 > Knowledge > Science.
System theory.
Science.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Operations Research.
SCIENCE > System Theory.
epistemology.
Theorie des systemes.
Theorie de la connaissance.
Interdisciplinarite.
Systems Theory
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I. Past and present
  • from the "system of the world" to a world full of systems
  • II. Mediating knowledge
  • system and the fate of enlightenment
  • III. Connectivities
  • system and the instituting of modernity.

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