Wild Knowledge : Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment.

Wild Knowledge : Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment.

Science is an incoherent form of knowledge, and, despite technical proficiency, it is conceptually wrong, wrong about nature, and wrong about knowledge" (p. 3). With this radical premise, Will Wright's intentions in this book are to challenge the.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, Will
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Language and languages.
Environmental policy.
sociology of knowledge.
languages (study discipline)
environmental policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Environmental policy
Human ecology > Philosophy
Knowledge, Sociology of
Language and languages
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Preface; Introduction: Ecological Incoherence; ONE: The Desperate Privilege of Science; TWO: Belief Systems; THREE: Nature as Politics; FOUR: The Mathematics of Knowledge; FIVE: The Knowing Individual; SIX: Scientific Social Theory; SEVEN: The Dilemma of Rationality; EIGHT: The Reference to Language; NINE: The Ecology of Language; References; Index.

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