Wild Knowledge
Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment
Will be published approx. on 10. June 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8166-2051-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2051-7 (9780816620517)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Ecological incoherence; the desperate privilege of science; belief systems; nature as politics; the mathematics of knowledge; the knowing individual; scientific social theory; the dilemma of rationality; the reference to language; the ecology of language.