Complexities
Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
1st Edition
Published on 10. June 2002
304 pages
978-0-8223-8355-0 (ISBN)
Description
Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
4 b&w photos, 2 tables, 9 figures
4 b&w photos, 2 tables, 9 figures
File size
0,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-8355-0 (9780822383550)
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Persons
John Law is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University in England.Annemarie Mol is Professor of Political Philosophy at Twente University in the Netherlands.
Content
Complexities: An Introduction / Annemarie Mol and John Law
Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences / Chunglin Kwa
Which Road to Follow? The Moral Complexity of an "Equipped" Humanity / Laurent Thevenot
On Space and Depth / Marilyn Strathern
On Hidden Heterogeneities: Complexity, Formalism, and Aircraft Design / John Law
In the Middle of the Network / Andrew Barry
When Elephants Stand for Competing Philosophies of Nature: Amboseli National Park, Kenya / Charis Thompson
Writing and (Re)writing Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity / Michel Callon
Cutting Surgeons, Walking Patients: Some Complexities Involved in Comparing / Annemarie Mol
The Disposal of Fear: Childhood, Trauma, and Complexity / Nick Lee and Steven D. Brown
Contributors
Index
Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences / Chunglin Kwa
Which Road to Follow? The Moral Complexity of an "Equipped" Humanity / Laurent Thevenot
On Space and Depth / Marilyn Strathern
On Hidden Heterogeneities: Complexity, Formalism, and Aircraft Design / John Law
In the Middle of the Network / Andrew Barry
When Elephants Stand for Competing Philosophies of Nature: Amboseli National Park, Kenya / Charis Thompson
Writing and (Re)writing Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity / Michel Callon
Cutting Surgeons, Walking Patients: Some Complexities Involved in Comparing / Annemarie Mol
The Disposal of Fear: Childhood, Trauma, and Complexity / Nick Lee and Steven D. Brown
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