- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (25 Jun 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1849660646
- ISBN-13: 978-1849660648
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 847,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Overall, I think this is potentially a very interesting and important book, and the authors are probably two of the very few who would attempt this and that might just succeed. It is clearly somewhat of a risky book for a publisher but as in all such risks the rewards are potentially high. --Professor Guy Fitzgerald, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University
Excellent and ground breaking. Very well written. Engaging in reading. It is a much needed and original contribution, which will become a key reference in contemporary academic social sciences thinking. --Professor Fernando Ilharco, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon
Excellent and ground breaking. Very well written. Engaging in reading. It is a much needed and original contribution, which will become a key reference in contemporary academic social sciences thinking. --Professor Fernando Ilharco, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon
Excellent and ground breaking. Very well written. Engaging in reading. It is a much needed and original contribution, which will become a key reference in contemporary academic social sciences thinking. --Professor Fernando Ilharco, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon
Excellent and ground breaking. Very well written. Engaging in reading. It is a much needed and original contribution, which will become a key reference in contemporary academic social sciences thinking. --Professor Fernando Ilharco, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon
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The purpose of the book is to deconstruct the process of knowledge discovery and theory construction on the basis of the four concepts mentioned below, and thereby to discuss the circumstances under which all scientific premises come to be constructed. The implications for theory and method are discussed against four primary and intrinsically interrelated concepts that should be of immediate interest to all scientific disciplines: namely observation, paradox, delusion, and most importantly self-reference. The book then reflects on various modes of theory-construction and -utilization. Grounded in the tradition of second-order cybernetics, the concept of self-reference is used in the context of systems theory in order to examine the mode in which observation, paradox and delusion become 'structurally coupled' with cognition. This has wide-ranging implications for not only the discovery of knowledge in itself, but also various expressions of knowledge, be they framed by reductionism or causality, and even those grandiosely claiming to approach a form of Grand Unification (as in Physics). It eventually concludes that so-called 'rigour' is merely reinforced self-reference, imposed by the power that comes with the utility delivered by the self-reference.Rooted in information systems analysis this fresh and audacious examination of knowledge discover and theory construction makes an important contribution to the understanding of how we employ scientific method.
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This book uses Luhmann's systems theory to argue that we ultimately don't know what we don't know. The free .pdf version of this book is available from the authors here:[...]
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Science philosophy at its best, 5 Jan 2011
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This review is from: Science's First Mistake: Delusions in Pursuit of Theory (Hardcover)
I have just finished reading Science's First Mistake. I loved the book for 2 reasons: the critical observing lens of the authors and the use of real-life examples for the deconstruction of human perceptions. Although the reading of the book can become challenging at times, at the end I noticed that I have changed the way I study the world around me. And that - i believe - is the primary aim of the authors.
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