Wild knowledge : science, language, and social life in a fragile environment / / Will Wright
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| Autore: |
Wright Will
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| Titolo: |
Wild knowledge : science, language, and social life in a fragile environment / / Will Wright
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1992 |
| ©1992 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 304.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human ecology - Philosophy |
| Knowledge, Sociology of | |
| Language and languages | |
| Environmental policy | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This text argues that scientific knowledge is primarily an effort at social legitimation, and that its conceptual incoherence as knowledge is now becoming ecological incoherence as social practice. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Wild knowledge |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8424-3 |
| 0-8166-2051-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778383603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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