The Evolution of Knowledge : : Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene / / Jürgen Renn.
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (584 p.) :; 105 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Explanatory Boxes
- The Story of This Book
- PART 1. WHAT IS SCIENCE? WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
- Chapter 1: History of Science in the Anthropocene
- Chapter 2: Elements of a Historical Theory of Human Knowledge
- PART 2. HOW KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES CHANGE
- Chapter 3: The Historical Nature of Abstraction and Representation
- Chapter 4: Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge
- Chapter 5: External Representations at Work
- Chapter 6: Mental Models at Work
- Chapter 7: The Nature of Scientific Revolutions
- PART 3. HOW KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES AFFECT SOCIETY AND VICE VERSA
- Chapter 8: The Economy of Knowledge
- Chapter 9: An Economy of Practical Knowledge
- Chapter 10: Knowledge Economies in History
- PART 4. HOW KNOWLEDGE SPREADS
- Chapter 11: The Globalization of Knowledge in History
- Chapter 12: The Multiple Origins of the Natural Sciences
- Chapter 13: Epistemic Networks
- PART 5. ON WHAT KNOWLEDGE OUR FUTURE DEPENDS
- Chapter 14: Epistemic Evolution
- Chapter 15: Exodus from the Holocene
- Chapter 16: Knowledge for the Anthropocene
- Chapter 17: Science and the Challenges of Humanity
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index