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A critique of the objectivity of scientific knowledge. The author argues that scientific knowledge is primarily an effort at social legitimation, and that its conceptual incoherence as knowledge is now becoming ecological incoherence as social practice.

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Ecological incoherence; the desperate privilege of science; belief systems; nature as politics; the mathematics of knowledge; the knowing individual; scientific social theory; the dilemma of rationality; the reference to language; the ecology of language.

Wild Knowledge Science Language and Social Life

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      Publisher: MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/10/1992 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780816620517, 978-0816620517
      ISBN10: 0816620512

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      Book Synopsis
      A critique of the objectivity of scientific knowledge. The author argues that scientific knowledge is primarily an effort at social legitimation, and that its conceptual incoherence as knowledge is now becoming ecological incoherence as social practice.

      Table of Contents
      Ecological incoherence; the desperate privilege of science; belief systems; nature as politics; the mathematics of knowledge; the knowing individual; scientific social theory; the dilemma of rationality; the reference to language; the ecology of language.

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