Interpreting Nature : Cultural Constructions of the Environment
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415097061
ISBN-13
9780415097062
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 2nd, 1993
Print length
230 Pages
Weight
364 grams
Dimensions
32.00 x 25.10 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Sociology & anthropology
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This explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and provisional. Environmental cognition can be formed by looking at philosophy, ethics, social science and the arts
Human society has constructed many varied notions of the environment. Scientific information about the environment is often seen as the only worthwhile knowledge. This ignores the complexities created by interaction between people and the environment. Idealist thinking argues that everything we know is based on a construct of our minds and that all is possible. Can both be correct and true?
Interpreting Nature explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and can only be provisional. Having examined the way in which the natural sciences have interrogated nature, the types of data produced and what they mean to us, this looks at the environment within philosophy and ethics, the social sciences and the arts, and analyses their role in the formation of environmental cognition.
Interpreting Nature explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and can only be provisional. Having examined the way in which the natural sciences have interrogated nature, the types of data produced and what they mean to us, this looks at the environment within philosophy and ethics, the social sciences and the arts, and analyses their role in the formation of environmental cognition.
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