In this provocative and broad-ranging work, a distinguished team of authors argues that we are now seeing fundamental changes in the ways in which scientific, social and cultural knowledge is produced. They show how this trend marks a distinct shift towards a new mode of knowled…
The theory of knowledge, or epistemology, is often regarded as a dry topic that bears little relation to actual knowledge practices. This book addresses this perception by showing the roots, developments and prospects of modern epistemology from its beginnings in the nineteenth …
The theory of knowledge, or epistemology, is often regarded as a dry topic that bears little relation to actual knowledge practices. Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History addresses this perception by showing the roots, developments and prospects of modern epistemology fr…
The theory of knowledge, or epistemology, is often regarded as a dry topic that bears little relation to actual knowledge practices. This book addresses this perception by showing the roots, developments and prospects of modern epistemology from its beginnings in the nineteenth …
The interaction between science and philosophy: papers from a symposium sponsored by the Israel A…
by Sambursky, Samuel, Elkana, Yehuda, Hebrew University ( Jerusalem), Van Leer Foundation for the Advancement of Human Culture, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
fromThe Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation Series
"George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book Mind, Self, and Society, which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts. Mead, however, never taught a course primar…
How can we advance knowledge? Which methods do we need in order to make new discoveries? How can we rationally evaluate, reconstruct and offer discoveries as a means of improving the 'method' of discovery itself? And how can we use findings about scientific discovery to boost fu…
Food chain management research can help in the analysis and redesign of value creation and the product flow throughout the chain from primary producer down to the consumer. The aim is to meet consumer and societal requirements effectively at minimal cost. In the Wageningen UR st…
What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these con…
