UID:
almafu_9959018082802883
Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9789048503667
Inhalt:
The arts and sciences have evolved primarily through specialization and broadening of scope. Stepping outside of one’s established discipline, however, involves a danger of "shallowness," even if the primary challenge was a "deep" integration problem. All too often, current ways of defining academic disciplines and fields of research fail to do justice to new approaches—a problem this volume tackles as it debates the possible futures of scholarship and academia.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Table of contents --
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1. The Sciences and Arts Debate. A review and some conclusions /
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2. Historical and Structural Approaches in the Natural and Human Sciences /
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Discussion: The Role of Laws and Contingency in History /
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3. Science and Society in Flux /
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Discussion: Does A New Kind of Science Require a New Kind of Scholar or a New Kind of University? /
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4. Science for the 21st Century /
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Discussion: Redrawing Disciplinary Boundaries – but to What Degree? /
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5. Science and Democracy /
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Science and Democracy: a difficult relationship: ‘An enlightened and elitist essay on an unresolvable problem’ /
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6. Epilogue --
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7. Appendix
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9789048503667
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048503667
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048503667