Wild knowledge
science, language, and social life in a fragile environment
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Author
Publication
1992 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
59,000 words, Guess
Page Count
236 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1556912M
- ISBN-100816620504
- OCLC Control Number24669381
- OCLC Control Numberwildknowledgesci00wrig
- Library of Congress Control Number91037574
and 2 more
- LibraryThing342609
- Goodreads4930569
Classifications
- DDC304.2
- LCCGF21 .W75 1992
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."--Amazon.com.
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