ISBN:
9781498576000
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.20973
Keywords:
Knowledge, Theory of
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Party affiliation-United States
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Political culture-United States
Abstract:
This book restores the credibility of politics with the basics of human behavior and social science. It does this by discussing how to retain the positive relationship between learnability and livability.
Abstract:
Cover -- The Politics of Knowledge -- The Politics of Knowledge: When Loyalty Minimizes Learning -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: Why Knowledge? -- Chapter 1 -- The Underlying Objective -- The Dangers of Discounting Knowledge -- Not Preachin' to the Choir -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Making the Case for More Learning -- More, or Less, On College -- Making a Comparison for More Learning -- Dealing with the Inevitable Dilemmas -- A Comment on "Easier and/or Faster" -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Standards of Living Landmarks -- ERRGH! Fire! . . . hmm . . . not so bad -- From Simple Groups to "Civilized" Society to the Modern State to the Civilization of Society -- Words to Reading to Knowledge to Learning -- An "Extra-Strength" Interlude -- The Shift to Technological Determinism -- . . . AND Economic Indeterminism -- The Best Is History? -- Notes -- Part II: Self-knowledge -- Chapter 4 -- Self-knowledge Explained -- The Foundations -- A Little More Enlightenment -- Delving Deeper, But Has Much Changed in Our Thinking? -- Attempts to Put Thinking into Practice -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- So What Do We Do with Self-knowledge? -- What's So Funny 'Bout Truth, Justice, and Virtue -- Is "Self-knowledge" Necessary? -- Changing agents? -- "Can I Get a Second on That Emotion?" -- Practical Application to Priority? -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Rational Choice and Its Competing Biases -- Establishing a Baseline -- What Overrides Rational? -- Risk Aversion and the Effects of Framing -- The Individual's Dilemma, or Distraction -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- Filling (Some of) the Void of Uncertainty -- The Resulting Disproportionality -- Power Law Distributions and Policy -- The Path of Most Assistance -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Species, Groups, Individuals, and Universals -- Nature versus Nurture: More Update than Debate -- Parents and Peers, Norms and Institutions.
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