Waterdrum Science: Science Through American Indian Arts and Culture

By Carolyn A. Petty

In Artificial Experts, Collins explains what computers can't do, but he also studiesthe ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do. He argues that the machines we create arelimited because we cannot reproduce in symbols what every community knows, yet we give our machinesabilities by the way we embed them in our society. He unfolds a compelling account of the differencebetween human action and machine intelligence, the core of which is a witty and learned explanationof knowledge itself, of what communities know and the ways in which they know it. H. M. Collins isProfessor of Sociology, Head of the School of Social Sciences, and Director of the Science StudiesCentre at the University of Bath.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964289806
• ISBN13: 9780964289802
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Larchmere Limited
• Length: 290 Pages
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8