A01=George Towner
Author_George Towner
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- ISBN 9780761820277
- Weight: 472g
- Dimensions: 143 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2001
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Processes of Knowledge, George Towner analyzes the actual ways that human knowledge is accumulated and organized, both in science and in everyday life. He places the processes of knowledge within their social context, examining the basic ways that communication lets people share ideas. Towner traces the development of language, writing, and data processing, demonstrating their different effects on theorizing. He also develops an evolutionary view of group thinking, examining the ways that human groups use specific types of theories to achieve social cohesion and showing how these theories change over time. The result is a dynamic view of intellectual history, based on the inherent processes by which knowledge grows.
George Towner is part of the Technical Staff, Apple Computer, Inc.
