Borrowed Knowledge - 9780226429786

The University of Chicago Press

Borrowed KnowledgeChaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines\nAuthor(s): Stephen H. Kellert\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226429786, 978-0226429786\nSynopsis\nWhat happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological change or conceptual reorganization within their home discipline, and to justify public policies and aesthetic [url] the recent explosion in the use (and abuse) of chaos theory, \""Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines\"" examines the relationship between science and other disciplines as well .