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Common knowledge : the challenge of transdisciplinarity /

Knowledge is a living thing, sustained through dynamic reflexive processes. Whether at the level of cellular signaling pathways, Internet design, or sociocultural interactions, human understanding grows and accrues value through bi-directional transmission across networks of emitters and receptors....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Cockell, Moira
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lausanne, Switzerland : Boca Raton, FL : EPFL Press ; Distributed by CRC Press, ©2011.
©2011
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Intellectual capital.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Education > Aims and objectives.
Common sense.
Capital intellectuel.
Sociologie de la connaissance.
Sens commun.
sociology of knowledge.
Common sense
Education > Aims and objectives
Intellectual capital
Knowledge, Sociology of
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Knowledge is a living thing, sustained through dynamic reflexive processes. Whether at the level of cellular signaling pathways, Internet design, or sociocultural interactions, human understanding grows and accrues value through bi-directional transmission across networks of emitters and receptors. And the cross-fertilization of ideas from different sources is what keeps the process vigorous. This book represents a milestone in cultivating constructive exchange between experts and specialists from the physical, natural, economic and human science disciplines. From its sixteen original and high.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1306503043
9781306503044
9781439863329
1439863326