Hanging on to the Edges : Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges t...
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| Formatua: | Livre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers
2019.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2020-01-31 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : VI-257 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Hanging on to the Edges, Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2018 |
| Gaia: | What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions-biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and nature versus nurture-and look instead for the for puzzles and anomalies, the points of connection and overlap. These essays, converted from often humorous, sometimes autobiographical blog posts, form an extended meditation on the possibilities and frustrations of the life scientific. Pragmatically arguing from the intersection between social and biological sciences, Nettle reappraises the virtues of policy initiatives such as Universal Basic Income and income redistribution, highlighting the traps researchers and politicians are liable to encounter. This provocative, intelligent and self-critical volume is a testament to the possibilities of interdisciplinary study-whose virtues Nettle stridently defends-drawing from and having implications for a wide cross-section of academic inquiry. This will appeal to anybody curious about the implications of social and biological sciences for increasingly topical political concerns. It comes particularly recommended to Sciences and Social Sciences students and to scholars seeking to extend the scope of their field in collaboration with other disciplines |
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| Alearen deskribapena: | Description d'après la consultation, 2020-01-31 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : VI-257 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Formatua: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografia: | Notes bibliogr. |
| ISBN: | 9791036533839 |
| Sartu: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition. |