Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location
by Lorraine Code
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Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific practice, this book presents the creative restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of knowledge. It critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract individualism and exploitation of people and places legitimated by western epistemologies.Tags
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Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Philosophy at York University, Canada. She is the author of several books, including Manufactured Uncertainty: Implications for Climate Change Skepticism, also published by SUNY Press, and Ecological Thinking The Politics of Epistemic Location.
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Philosophy
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- 306.4 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Specific aspects of culture
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- BD175 .C56 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Speculative philosophy Speculative philosophy Epistemology. Theory of knowledge
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