Discourse synthesis : studies in historical and contemporary social epistemology /
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001. |
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| Description: | xii, 450 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4439902 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Defining Discourse Synthesis
- Part I. Consensus/Dissensus and the Politics of Scholarship
- Chapter 1. Consensus and Disagreement Among American Economic Historians
- Chapter 2. Scholarship on John Locke in the Late Twentieth Century
- Chapter 3. The Politics of Discourse Synthesis in the Literature of Health
- Chapter 4. Discourse Synthesis in the Literature of Evidence-Based Medicine
- Part II. Contrasting Conceptual Frameworks of Synthesizing Discourse: "Vertical and Horizontal" Thinking Versus "Associative and Analogical" Thinking
- Chapter 5. The Information Connection in Scholarly Synthesis
- Chapter 6. A Journey through Science
- Part III. Synthesizing Discourse in Mathematical Communities
- Chapter 7. The Discourse of Mathematics
- Chapter 8. Mathematical Discourse and Cross-Disciplinary Communities: The Case of Political Economy
- Part IV. The Different "Takes" on Discourse Synthesis and Postmodernist Scholarship
- Chapter 9. A Changing Terrain of Knowledge and Power: A Social Epistemology of Educational Research
- Chapter 10. The Discourse of Literary Criticism and Theory
- Chapter 11. Postmodernism
- Part V. Quantifying Consensus
- Chapter 12. Discourse Synthesis in Meta-Analysis
- Part VI. Reference Works as Tools of Discourse Synthesis and Consensus
- Chapter 13. Discursive Communities/Interpretive Communities: The New Logic, John Locke, and Dictionary-Making, 1660-1760
- Chapter 14. Encyclopedias and the Integration of Knowledge
- Chapter 15. Educating the Will: Masculinity and Modernity in La Grande Encyclopedie (1886-1902)
- Part VII. Discourse Synthesis: "Micro" and "Macro" Considerations
- Chapter 16. Discourse Synthesis: The Process and the Product
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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