Rethinking knowledge
Subtitle: reflections across the disciplines
By: edited by Robert F. Goodman and Walter R. Fisher ; with a foreword by Stephen Toulmin.
Contributors: Goodman, Robert F.; Fisher, Walter R.
Series: SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Social sciences -- Philosophy.; Postmodernism.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.