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Title Common knowledge : the challenge of transdisciplinarity / edited by Moira Cockell, Jerome Billotte, Frederic Darbellay, Francis Waldvogel
Published Lausanne : EPFL Press, 2014

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Contents Front Cover; COMMON KNOWLEDGE: THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Transforming Knowledge into Wisdom; 1. Common Responsibilities; 2. Common Goals; 3. Common Language
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
Notes Previously issued in print: Boca Raton, Fla.: EFPL, 2011
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Intellectual capital.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Education -- Aims and objectives.
Common sense.
sociology of knowledge.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Common sense
Education -- Aims and objectives
Intellectual capital
Knowledge, Sociology of
Form Electronic book
Author Cockell, Moira, editor
Billotte, Jerome, editor
Darbellay, Frédéric, editor
Waldvogel, Francis, editor
ISBN 9781439863329
1439863326