Knowledge as Value

Knowledge as Value PDF

Author: Ian Morley

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9042024380

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This book considers the place and value of knowledge in contemporary society. “Knowledge” is not a self-evident concept: both its denotations and connotations are historically situated. Since the Enlightenment, knowledge has been a matter of discovery through effort, and “knowledge for its own sake” a taken-for-granted ideal underwriting progressive education as a process which not only taught “for” and “about” something, but also ennobled the soul. While this ideal has not been explicitly rejected, in recent decades there has been a tacit move away from a strong emphasis on its centrality, even in Higher Education. The authors address the values that inform knowledge production in its present forms, and seek to identify social and cultural factors that support these values.Against the background of increasingly restrictive conditions of academic work, the first section of this volume offers incisive critiques of Higher Education, with examples drawn from Australia and New Zealand. The second group of chapters considers how academics have viewed, and have tried to adapt to, present circumstances. The third section comprises papers that consider epistemological issues in the generation and promulgation of knowledge. The chapters in this volume are indicative of the work that needs to be done so that we can come to comprehend – and perhaps try and improve – our relationship to learning and knowledge in the 21st Century.This timely book will be of particular interest to workers in higher education; it should also inform and challenge all those who have concerns for the future of the intellectual life of our civilization.

Scientific Style and Format

Scientific Style and Format PDF

Author: Council of Science Editors. Style Manual Committee

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 9780226116495

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The Scientific Style and Format Eighth Edition Subcommittee worked to ensure the continued integrity of the CSE style and to provide a progressively up-to-date resource for our valued users, which will be adjusted as needed on the website. This new edition will prove to be an authoritative tool used to help keep the language and writings of the scientific community alive and thriving, whether the research is printed on paper or published online.

The ACS Style Guide

The ACS Style Guide PDF

Author: Janet S. Dodd

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13:

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Guidelines from ACS to help authors and editors in preparing scientific texts.

Notes for the Guidance of Authors

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Author: MacMillan Company

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781331911142

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Excerpt from Notes for the Guidance of Authors: On the Preparation of Manuscripts, on the Reading of Proofs, and on Dealing With Publishers "An honest Stationer (or Publisher) is he, that exercizeth his Mystery (vvhether it be in printing, bynding or selling of Bookes) vvith more respect to the glory of God & the publike aduantage than to his ovvne Commodity & is both an ornament & a profitable member in the ciuill Commonvvealth... If he be a Printer he makes conscience to exempelfy his Coppy fayrely & truly. If he be a Booke-bynder, he is no meere Bookseller (that is) one vvho aduantage only: but he is a Chapman of Arts, of vvifdome, & of much experience for a little money... The reputation of Schollers is a deare unto him as his ovvne: For, he acknovvledgeth that from them his Mystery had both begining and means of continuance. He heartely loues & seekes the Prosperity of his ovvne Corporation: Yet he vvould not iniure the Uniuersityes to aduantage it. In a vvord, he is such a man that the State ought to cherish him; Schollers to loue him, good Customers to frequent his shopp; and the vvhole Company of Stationers to pray for him." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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