Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification by Newfield, Christopher
Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification by Newfield, Christopher

Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification

This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers are both...
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Author: Christopher Newfield
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Language: English
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Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification by Newfield, Christopher

Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification

$129.43
Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification by Newfield, Christopher

Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification

$129.43
Author: Christopher Newfield
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Christopher Newfield
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 06/24/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780226817156

About the Author
Newfield, Christopher: - Christopher Newfield is director of research at the Independent Social Research Foundation, London.Alexandrova, Anna: - Anna Alexandrova is a reader in the Philosophy of Science in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a fellow of King's College.John, Stephen: - Stephen John is the Hatton Lecturer in the Philosophy of Public Health in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Pembroke College.
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