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Limits of the Numerical

- The Abuses and Uses of Quantification
Engelsk Hardback

Limits of the Numerical

- The Abuses and Uses of Quantification
Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226817132
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 022681713X
Kategori: Matematikkens filosofi
Udg. Dato: 13 jul 2022
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 237mm
Højde: 158mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 13 jul 2022
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Kategori Matematikkens filosofi

ISBN-13 9780226817132

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 304

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 237mm

Højde 158mm

Udg. Dato 13 jul 2022

Oplagsdato 13 jul 2022

Forlag The University of Chicago Press