9780691185675 (electronic bk.)

0691185670 (electronic bk.)

9780691171982

069117198X

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

The story of this book

Part 1: What is science? What is knowledge? History of science in the Anthropocene ; Elements of a historical theory of human knowledge

Part 2: How knowledge structures change. The historical nature of abstraction and representation ; Structural changes in systems of knowledge ; External representations at work ; Mental models at work ; The nature of scientific revolutions

Part 3: How knowledge structures affect society and vice versa. The economy of knowledge ; An economy of practical knowledge ; Knowledge economies in history

Part 4: How knowledge spreads. The globalization of knowledge in history ; The multiple origins of the natural sciences ; Epistemic networks

Part 5: On what knowledge our future depends. Epistemic evolution ; Exodus from the Holocene ; Knowledge for the Anthropocene ; Science and the challenges of huumanity.

Science > Philosophy.

Science > History.