Discourse synthesis : studies in historical and contemporary social epistemology /

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Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
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
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Other authors / contributors:McInnis, Raymond G.
ISBN:0275970701 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-408) and index.
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
  • About the Contributors