Ken Baake

Metaphor and Knowledge (eBook, PDF)

The Challenges of Writing Science

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the difficulty of writing science when word meanings are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor in science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791486740
• Artikelnr.: 60501235

Autorenporträt

Ken Baake is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Texas Tech University.