Philosophy of interdisciplinarity : : studies in science, society and sustainability / / Jan Cornelius Schmidt.
"Interdisciplinarity is a hallmark of contemporary knowledge production. This book introduces a Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity at the intersection of science, society, and sustainability. In light of the ambivalence of the technosciences and the challenge of sustainable development in the An...
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| Superior document: | History and Philosophy of Technoscience Ser. |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History and Philosophy of Technoscience Ser.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction: What does the philosophy of interdisciplinarity offer?
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Philosophy and plurality: Providing a classification and clarification of interdisciplinarity
- Hot topic
- Richness of the tradition
- Motives and values
- Boundaries
- Distinguishing different types
- Examples
- Schools of thought
- Conclusion and prospects
- Notes
- Chapter 3: Politics and research programs: Addressing the knowledge politics of interdisciplinarity
- Knowledge politics
- The nanoresearch program
- Diagnosis
- Towards a new fundament
- Underlying assumptions
- Technological reductionism
- Technological humanism and the next industrial revolution?
- Different types of interdisciplinarity
- A view on theories
- Are new methods involved?
- Considering interdisciplinary problems and purposes
- Focusing on technical objects
- Critique
- Summary and prospect
- Notes
- Chapter 4: History and technoscience: Tracing the historical roots of object-oriented interdisciplinarity
- Instrumentalist mindset
- No man's land of techno-objects
- Bacon and the roots of techno-object-oriented interdisciplinarity
- Aim and motive inherent in Bacon's concept
- Practice, method, and genesis
- Material manifestation, technical works, and the truth of artefacts
- The core of constructed and created objects: nature as mathematical law
- Technoscience as object-oriented interdisciplinarity
- Summary and prospect
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Society and societal problems: Conceptualizing problem-oriented inter- and transdisciplinarity
- Addressing real-world problems
- The problem with "problems"
- Wicked problems
- Proposing an analytic clarification.
- The implicit assumption: internal-external dichotomy
- Epistemological positions
- An example from science policy
- Summary and prospect
- Notes
- Interlude: On shortcomings of the instrumentalist view
- Notes
- Chapter 6: Ethics and the environment: Engaging with grand environmental challenges of the cultural crisis
- Environmentalist concept
- Roots of the crisis
- Objections
- Diagnosis-and against the first objection
- Analysis-and against the second objection
- Argumentation-and against the third objection
- Practice and action-and against the fourth objection
- Prospects: shaping "metaphysics," building society
- Notes
- Chapter 7: Nature and the sciences: In search of alternative concepts of nature and science
- Self-organizing phenomena
- Synthesis-a first dimension of critical-reflexive interdisciplinarity
- Self-organization theories
- Disregard of instabilities
- The recognition of instabilities-the core of self-organizing phenomena
- Characterizing self-organization
- Critique-a second dimension of critical-reflexive interdisciplinarity
- Landscape of instabilities
- Instability as a point of critique-and a challenge to scientific methodology
- One, critique of experimentability and reproducibility
- Two, critique of predictability and calculability
- Three, critique of testability, confirmability, and refutability
- Four, critique of (reductive) explainability
- Against the Baconian position
- Challenging science and philosophy of science
- Alternative directions of science-a third dimension of critical-reflexive interdisciplinarity
- Dealing with instabilities
- Phenomenological-morphological approach
- Processuality, modelling, and contextualism
- Critical reflection on agenda setting
- Problem orientation-a fourth dimension of critical-reflexive interdisciplinarity
- Summary and prospect
- Notes.
- Chapter 8: Technology and the future: Advancing prospective technology assessment
- On the continuous production of pressing problems
- Extending the scope
- Normative anchor
- Synthetic biology - a case study
- Scrutinizing the visions
- Deepening the analysis
- Synthetic biology aims to harness self-organization for technical purposes
- Synthetic biology as late-modern technology
- Tracing the technoscientific core
- Assessing the technoscientific core
- Summary and prospect
- Notes
- References
- Index.