Rethinking Knowledge: Reflections Across the Disciplines
- ISBN-10
- 0791423379
- ISBN-13
- 9780791423370
- Series
- Rethinking Knowledge
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-01-01
- Publisher
- SUNY Press
- Authors
- Walter R. Fisher, Robert F. Goodman
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.
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