Science matters : humanities as complex systems /

Science matters : humanities as complex systems /

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Imprint:Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Science and the humanities.
Humanities.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
System theory.
Social systems.
Humanities.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Science and the humanities.
Social systems.
System theory.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205524
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Other authors / contributors:Burguete, Maria.
Lam, Lui.
ISBN:9789812835949
9812835946
128244235X
9781282442351
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:All earnest and honest human quests for knowledge are efforts to understand Nature, which includes both human and nonhuman systems, the objects of study in science. Thus, broadly speaking, all these quests are in the science domain. The methods and tools used may be different; for example, the literary people use mainly their bodily sensors and their brain as the information processor, while natural scientists may use, in addition, measuring instruments and computers. Yet, all these activities could be viewed in a unified perspective - they are scientific developments at varying stages of matu.
Other form:Print version: Science matters. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2008 9789812835932

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