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• catalog abstract "Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities. While much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer - particularly within the field of science studies - approaches to a theory of complexity, and at the same time a theoretical introduction to the topic. Indeed, they examine not only ways of relating to complexity but complexity in practice. Individual essays examine complexity from a variety of perspectives and cover an array of case studies and topics that include market behaviour, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, road-building, meteorology, the science of complexity itself, and the psychology of childhood trauma. Other topics include complex wholes (holism) in the sciences, moral complexity in seemingly amoral endeavours, and issues relating to the protection of African elephants. With a focus on such concepts as multiplicity, partial connections, ebbs, and flows, the collection includes narratives from Kenya, Belgium, Great Britain, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, and France, written by anthropologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of science, technology, and society. "There is much here to provoke new thought and insight into the meaning of complexity, and the authors do show how any reduction will inevitably require a focusing that is partial and ultimately problematic. ... Mol should be applauded for trying to see how her story might have some longer term practical utility. But the overall strength of this book lies in its posing more questions than answers-in a quite deliberate way. It is not an easy read, but then that would be asking for a simplification that would hide the very complex(ity) issues the book is trying to reveal."--Andrew Webster, "Interdisciplinary Science Reviews."".
• catalog contributor b12548863.
• catalog contributor b12548864.
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""There is much here to provoke new thought and insight into the meaning of complexity, and the authors do show how any reduction will inevitably require a focusing that is partial and ultimately problematic. ... Mol should be applauded for trying to see how her story might have some longer term practical utility. But the overall strength of this book lies in its posing more questions than answers-in a quite deliberate way. It is not an easy read, but then that would be asking for a simplification that would hide the very complex(ity) issues the book is trying to reveal."--Andrew Webster, "Interdisciplinary Science Reviews."".
• catalog description "Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities. While much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer - particularly within the field of science studies - approaches to a theory of complexity, and at the same time a theoretical introduction to the topic. Indeed, they examine not only ways of relating to complexity but complexity in practice. Individual essays examine complexity from a variety of perspectives and cover an array of case studies and topics that include market behaviour, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, road-building, meteorology, the science of complexity itself, and the psychology of childhood trauma. Other topics include complex wholes (holism) in the sciences, moral complexity in seemingly amoral endeavours, and issues relating to the protection of African elephants. With a focus on such concepts as multiplicity, partial connections, ebbs, and flows, the collection includes narratives from Kenya, Belgium, Great Britain, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, and France, written by anthropologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of science, technology, and society.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Romantic and baroque conceptions of complex wholes in the sciences / Chunglin Kwa -- Which road to follow? / Laurent Thévenot -- On space and depth / Marilyn Strathern -- On hidden heterogeneities / John Law -- In the middle of the network / Andrew Barry -- When elephants stand for competing philosophies of nature / Charis Thompson -- Writing and (re)writing devices as tools for managing complexity / Michel Callon -- Cutting surgeons, walking patients / Annemarie Mol -- Disposal of fear / Nick Lee and Steven D. Brown.".
• catalog extent "295 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Complexities.".
• catalog identifier "0822328313 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0822328461 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Complexities.".
• catalog isPartOf "Science and cultural theory".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Durham : Duke University Press,".
• catalog relation "Complexities.".
• catalog subject "001 21".
• catalog subject "B105.C473 C65 2002".
• catalog subject "Complexity (Philosophy)".
• catalog subject "Knowledge, Sociology of.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Romantic and baroque conceptions of complex wholes in the sciences / Chunglin Kwa -- Which road to follow? / Laurent Thévenot -- On space and depth / Marilyn Strathern -- On hidden heterogeneities / John Law -- In the middle of the network / Andrew Barry -- When elephants stand for competing philosophies of nature / Charis Thompson -- Writing and (re)writing devices as tools for managing complexity / Michel Callon -- Cutting surgeons, walking patients / Annemarie Mol -- Disposal of fear / Nick Lee and Steven D. Brown.".
• catalog title "Complexities : social studies of knowledge practices / John Law and Annemarie Mol, editors.".
• catalog type "text".