Borrowed knowledge : chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines /

Borrowed knowledge : chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines /

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Author / Creator:	Kellert, Stephen H.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 292 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Chaotic behavior in systems. Science -- Philosophy. Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge. Chaotic behavior in systems. Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge. Science -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218800

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ISBN:	0226429806 9780226429809 1282070363 9781282070363 0226429784 9780226429786 9786612070365 6612070366
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological change or conceptual reorganization within their home discipline, and to justify public policies and aesthetic judgments. Using the recent explosion in the use (and abuse) of chaos theory, Borrowed Know.
Other form:	Print version: Kellert, Stephen H. Borrowed knowledge. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008

Table of Contents:

What was chaos theory, and why would people want to borrow it?
Disciplinary pluralism
The rhetorical functions of borrowing and the uses of disciplinary prestige
Motivating methodological change
Metaphorical chaos
How to criticize a metaphor
Facts, values, and intervention
Beautiful chaos?
Postmodern chaos and the challenge of pluralism.