Rethinking Knowledge

Author : Carlo Cellucci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319850997

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This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences. It seeks to answer the question of whether or not philosophy can still be fruitful and what kind of philosophy can be such. The author argues that from its very beginning philosophy has focused on knowledge and methods for acquiring knowledge. This view, however, has generally been abandoned in the last century with the belief that, unlike the sciences, philosophy makes no observations or experiments and requires only thought. Thus, in order for philosophy to once again be relevant, it needs to return to its roots and focus on knowledge as well as methods for acquiring knowledge. Accordingly, this book deals with several questions about knowledge that are essential to this view of philosophy, including mathematical knowledge. Coverage examines such issues as the nature of knowledge; plausibility and common sense; knowledge as problem solving; modeling scientific knowledge; mathematical objects, definitions, diagrams; mathematics and reality; and more. This monograph presents a new approach to philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers with interests in the role of knowledge, the analytic method, models of science, and mathematics and reality.

Author : David Weinberger
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780465038725

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Too Big to Know by David Weinberger Pdf

"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable directions. In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains that, rather than a systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental change in the methods we have for understanding the world around us. With examples from history, politics, business, philosophy, and science, Too Big to Know describes how the very foundations of knowledge have been overturned, and what this revolution means for our future.

Author : Robert F. Goodman,Walter R. Fisher
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791423379

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Rethinking Knowledge by Robert F. Goodman,Walter R. Fisher Pdf

This book explores issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reason. Among the distinguished contributors are Michael Arbib, Aaron Ben-Zeev, Helen Couclelis, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jane Flax, George E. Marcus, Donald McCloskey, Donald Schon, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, and Charles Taylor.

Author : Jürgen Renn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691171982

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The Evolution of Knowledge by Jürgen Renn Pdf

Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing vital perspectives on the complex challenges confronting us today in the Anthropocene--this new geological epoch shaped by humankind. Renn reframes the history of science and technology within a much broader history of knowledge, analyzing key episodes such as the evolution of writing, the emergence of science in the ancient world, the Scientific Revolution of early modernity, the globalization of knowledge, industrialization, and the profound transformations wrought by modern science. He investigates the evolution of knowledge using an array of disciplines and methods, from cognitive science and experimental psychology to earth science and evolutionary biology. The result is an entirely new framework for understanding structural changes in systems of knowledge--and a bold new approach to the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Kim Sbarcea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Knowledge management
ISBN : 1863161929

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Rethinking Knowledge by Kim Sbarcea Pdf

Author : Kelly Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317398134

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Complexity and Creative Capacity by Kelly Chapman Pdf

Complexity theories gained prominence in the 1990s with a focus on self-organising and complex adaptive systems. Since then, complexity theory has become one of the fastest growing topics in both the natural and social sciences, and touted as a revolutionary way of understanding the behaviour of complex systems. This book uses complexity theory to surface and challenge the deeply held cultural assumptions that shape how we think about reality and knowledge. In doing so it shows how our traditional approaches to generating and applying knowledge may be paradoxically exacerbating some of the ‘wicked’ environmental problems we are currently facing. The author proposes an innovative and compelling argument for rejecting old constructs of knowledge transfer, adaptive management and adaptive capacity. The book also presents a distinctively coherent and comprehensive synthesis of cognition, learning, knowledge and organizing from a complexity perspective. It concludes with a reconceptualization of the problem of knowledge transfer from a complexity perspective, proposing the concept of creative capacity as an alternative to adaptive capacity as a measure of resilience in socio-ecological systems. Although written from an environmental management perspective, it is relevant to the broader natural sciences and to a range of other disciplines, including knowledge management, organizational learning, organizational management, and the philosophy of science.

Author : Carlo Cellucci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319532370

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Rethinking Knowledge by Carlo Cellucci Pdf

This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences. It seeks to answer the question of whether or not philosophy can still be fruitful and what kind of philosophy can be such. The author argues that from its very beginning philosophy has focused on knowledge and methods for acquiring knowledge. This view, however, has generally been abandoned in the last century with the belief that, unlike the sciences, philosophy makes no observations or experiments and requires only thought. Thus, in order for philosophy to once again be relevant, it needs to return to its roots and focus on knowledge as well as methods for acquiring knowledge. Accordingly, this book deals with several questions about knowledge that are essential to this view of philosophy, including mathematical knowledge. Coverage examines such issues as the nature of knowledge; plausibility and common sense; knowledge as problem solving; modeling scientific knowledge; mathematical objects, definitions, diagrams; mathematics and reality; and more. This monograph presents a new approach to philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers with interests in the role of knowledge, the analytic method, models of science, and mathematics and reality.

Author : Kurt Burch,Robert A. Denemark,Kenneth P. Thomas,Mary Ann Tétreault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134381050

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Rethinking Global Political Economy by Kurt Burch,Robert A. Denemark,Kenneth P. Thomas,Mary Ann Tétreault Pdf

This new volume presents innovative approaches to the fundamental issues of the global political economy, in particular post Cold War development, analyses of capital and negative aspects of globalization.

Author : Claire R. McInerney,Ronald E. Day
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783540710110

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Rethinking Knowledge Management by Claire R. McInerney,Ronald E. Day Pdf

This book readdresses fundamental issues in knowledge management, leading to a new area of study: knowledge processes. McInerney’s and Day’s superb authors from various disciplines offer new and exciting views on knowledge acquisition, generation, sharing and management in a post-industrial environment. Their contributions discuss problems of knowledge acquisition, handling, and learning from a variety of perspectives.

Author : Peter Finkenbusch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315402734

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Rethinking Neo-Institutional Statebuilding by Peter Finkenbusch Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Expansive intervention as neo-institutional learning: introducing the knowledge paradox -- 2 The demise of liberal-universalism: reality as critique -- 3 Mexico's new sovereignty: 'shared responsibility' and resilience in the Merida Initiative -- 4 The neo-institutional search for civil society -- 5 Neo-institutional capacity-building: disassembling international policy -- Conclusion -- Index

Author : Jonathan M. Harris
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472089242

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Rethinking Sustainability by Jonathan M. Harris Pdf

DIVProvides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development /div

Author : Binaya Subedi
Publisher : IAP
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607523888

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Critical Global Perspectives by Binaya Subedi Pdf

The primary purpose of this book is to invite educators to (re)think what it means to critically conceptualize knowledge about the world. In other words, imagining curriculum in a critical way means decolonizing mainstream knowledge about global societies. Such an approach re-evaluates how we have come to know the world and asks us to consider the socio-political context in which we have come to understand what constitutes an ethical global imagination. A critical reading of the world calls for the need to examine alternative ways of knowing and teaching about the world: a pedagogy that recognizes how diverse subjects have come to view the world. A critical question this book raises is: What are the radical ways of re-conceptualizing curriculum knowledge about global societies so that we can become accountable to the different ways people have come to experience the world? Another question the book raises is: how do we engage with complexities surrounding social differences such as gender, race, ethnicity, religion, etc., in the global contexts? Analyzing global issues and events through the prism of social difference opens up spaces to advocate a transformative framework for a global education curriculum. Transformative in the sense that such a curriculum asks students to challenge stereotypes and engages students in advocating changes within local/global contexts. A critical global perspective advocates the value of going beyond the nation-state centered approach to teaching about topics such as history, politics, culture, etc. It calls for the need to develop curriculum that accounts for transnational formations: an intervention that asks us to go beyond issues that are confined within national borders. Such a practice recognizes the complicated ways the local is connected to the global and vice versa and cautions against creating a hierarchy between national and global issues. It also suggests the need to critically examine the pitfalls of forming dichotomies between the local (or the national) and the global or the center and the periphery.

Author : Harry Collins,Robert Evans
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226113623

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Rethinking Expertise by Harry Collins,Robert Evans Pdf

What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology. Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledge—knowledge that we have but cannot explain. They then look at how some expertises are used to judge others, how laypeople judge between experts, and how credentials are used to evaluate them. Throughout, Collins and Evans ask an important question: how can the public make use of science and technology before there is consensus in the scientific community? This book has wide implications for public policy and for those who seek to understand science and benefit from it. “Starts to lay the groundwork for solving a critical problem—how to restore the force of technical scientific information in public controversies, without importing disguised political agendas.”—Nature “A rich and detailed ‘periodic table’ of expertise . . . full of case studies, anecdotes and intriguing experiments.”—Times Higher Education Supplement (UK)

Author : Charles L. Briggs
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646421022

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Unlearning by Charles L. Briggs Pdf

A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field, that scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse theories across disciplines when they collaborate with theorists whose insights are not constrained by the bounds of scholarship. Eschewing narrow Eurocentric modes of explanation and research foci, Briggs brings together colonialism, health, media, and psychoanalysis to rethink classic work on poetics and performance that revolutionized linguistic anthropology, folkloristics, media studies, communication, and other fields. Beginning with a candid memoir that credits the mentors whose disconcerting insights prompted him to upend existing scholarly approaches, Briggs combines his childhood experiences in New Mexico with his work in graduate school, his ethnography in Venezuela working with Indigenous peoples, and his contemporary work—which is heavily weighted in medical folklore. Unlearning offers students, emerging scholars, and veteran researchers alike a guide for turning ethnographic objects into provocations for transforming time-worn theories and objects of analysis into sources of scholarly creativity, deep personal engagement, and efforts to confront unconscionable racial inequities. It will be of significant interest to folklorists, anthropologists, and social theorists and will stimulate conversations across these disciplines.

Author : Adam Unwin,John Yandell
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781771132640

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Rethinking Education by Adam Unwin,John Yandell Pdf