Borrowed knowledge : chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines /
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- What was chaos theory, and why would people want to borrow it?
- Disciplinary pluralism
- The rhetorical functions of borrowing and the uses of disciplinary prestige
- Motivating methodological change
- Metaphorical chaos
- How to criticize a metaphor
- Facts, values, and intervention
- Beautiful chaos?
- Postmodern chaos and the challenge of pluralism.