Rethinking knowledge : reflections across the disciplines
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Rethinking knowledge : reflections across the disciplines
（SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences）
State University of New York Press, c1995
- : alk. paper
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reason.
Among the distinguished contributors are Michael Arbib, Aaron Ben-Zeev, Helen Couclelis, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jane Flax, George E. Marcus, Donald McCloskey, Donald Schon, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, and Charles Taylor.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Stephen Toulmin
Introduction
Robert F. Goodman
Part I. Fundamental Issues: Method, Values, Mind, and Self
1. Economics and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
Donald N. McCloskey
2. The Truth/Value of Judgments
Barbara Hernstein Smith
3. Is There a Problem in Explaning Cognitive Process?
Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
4. The Dialogical Self
Charles Taylor
Part II. Reorientations in Social Science Inquiry
5. Causality and Causal Inference in the Study of Organizations
Donald A. Schon
6. The Redesign of Ethnography after the Critique of Its Rhetoric
George E. Marcus
7. Toward an Evolutionary Hermeneutics: The Case of Wisdom
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Part III. Values, Reason, and Responsibility
8. Representation without Grounds
Jane Flax
9. Narration, Knowledge, and the Possibility of Wisdom
Walter R. Fisher
Part IV. Knowledge and Schema Theory
10. Bridging Cognition and Knowledge
Helen Couclelis
11. The Schema Theory of Minds: Implications for the Social Sciences
Michael A. Arbib
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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