Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Tapa dura - 2010

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 186pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called "tacit knowledge" by physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but here Harry Collins analyzes the term, and the behavior, in much greater detail, often departing from Polanyi's treatment. In Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, Collins develops a common conceptual language to bridge the concept's disparate domains by explaining explicit knowledge and classifying tacit knowledge. Collins then teases apart the three very different meanings, which, until now, all fell under the… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.