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The University Of Chicago Press - Limits Of The Numerical The Abuses And Uses Of Quantification - Paperback
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Description: This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science higher education and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time they are frequent objects of obfuscation manipulation or outright denial. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and social scientists challenges undue reverence or skepticism toward quantification and offers new ideas about how to harmonize quantitative with qualitative forms of knowledge. Limits of the Numerical focuses on quantification in several contexts: climate change; university teaching and research; and health medicine and well - being more broadly. This volume shows the many ways that qualitative and quantitative approaches can productively interact how the limits of the numerical can be overcome through equitable partnerships with historical institutional and philosophical analysis. The authors show that we can use numbers to hold the powerful to account but only when those numbers are themselves democratically accountable.
Title: Limits Of The Numerical The Abuses And Uses Of Quantification
Brand: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226817156
Pages: 304 Pages, 2 Halftones, 5 Tables
Publication Date: 6/24/2022
Category: Philosophy Of Mathematics
Description: This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science higher education and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time they are frequent objects of obfuscation manipulation or outright denial. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and social scientists challenges undue reverence or skepticism toward quantification and offers new ideas about how to harmonize quantitative with qualitative forms of knowledge. Limits of the Numerical focuses on quantification in several contexts: climate change; university teaching and research; and health medicine and well - being more broadly. This volume shows the many ways that qualitative and quantitative approaches can productively interact how the limits of the numerical can be overcome through equitable partnerships with historical institutional and philosophical analysis. The authors show that we can use numbers to hold the powerful to account but only when those numbers are themselves democratically accountable.
Title: Limits Of The Numerical The Abuses And Uses Of Quantification
Brand: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226817156
Pages: 304 Pages, 2 Halftones, 5 Tables
Publication Date: 6/24/2022
Category: Philosophy Of Mathematics
