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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2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1947259&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: nlebk uiTerm: 1947259 longDbName: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: btl: Hanging on to the Edges : Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life aug: au: Daniel Nettle isbn: 9781783745807 9781783745814 9781783745821 9781783745838 imageinfo: pubinfo: dt: @attributes: year: 2018 month: 01 day: 01 dtAvail: @attributes: year: 2022 month: 01 day: 13 pub: Open Book Publishers pubContract: Thoth Open Metadata place: Cambridge, UK price: 0.01 limitsGroup: maxCheckoutDays: 1500 pda: N printPagesOffline: 100 printPagesOnline: 100 previewPages: 10000 prePubGroup: dewey: @attributes: class: 303.483 item: 303 .483 lc: @attributes: class: Q175.55 item: Q 175 .55 artinfo: ui: 1947259 1082988925 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: EB doid: NL$1947259$PDF caption: PDF download: Y tig: atl: Hanging on to the Edges : Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life ptl: Hanging on to the Edges aug: au: Daniel Nettle su: Science--Social aspects Science Intellectual life sug: subj: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology Science--Social aspects Science Intellectual life ab: 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. pubtype: eBook doctype: Book ougenre: Book language: English copyright: @attributes: flag: N copyrightText: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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