Cognitive Justice in a Global World: Prudent Knowledges for a Decent LifeBoaventura de Sousa Santos Lexington Books, 2007 - 446 Seiten Cognitive Justice in a Global World: Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life is an edited collection that springs from the now dormant debates known as "The Science Wars," which questioned the nature of scientific theories. Learning from the debates about the plurality of truths and opinions, editor Boaventura de Sousa Santos has realized an opportunity for strengthening the relations between the natural and social sciences with more epistemological affinities and for opening up new transnational dialogues between scientists and other producers of knowledge. This book analyzes in detail some of the topics that amount to a set of problematic relations between science and ethics, between objectivity and neutrality; between the sociological and theoretical condition of production and the limits of scientific rigor; between public faith in science and the economic powers that determine scientific priorities; and between science and other kinds of knowledge existing in society. Maintaining that global social injustice is by and large epistemological injustice and that there can be no global social justice without global cognitive justice, Cognitive Justice in a Global World is an important collection for higher-level students and researchers in social sciences, philosophy of science, and intellectual history. Book jacket. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
A Discourse on the Sciences | 13 |
Neither Truce nor Surrender Are the Sciences Wars Over? | 47 |
Pathways to Cosmopolitan Knowledges In the Aftermath of the Discourse on the Sciences | 49 |
Science Wars Whither the Two Cultures | 71 |
On Wars and Revolutions | 87 |
Authorizing Knowledge in Science and Anthropology | 105 |
The Structures of Knowledge or How Many Ways May We Know? | 129 |
The Rhetoric of Science in Darwins On the Origins of Species | 225 |
Science on the Edge Some Reproductive Biology Paradigms | 251 |
Global Cognitive Justice Reconstructing Knowledges and World Making | 271 |
Actors Networks and New Knowledge Producers Social Movements and the Paradigmatic Transition in the Sciences | 273 |
Reconstructing Unruly Ecological Complexity Science Interpretation and Critical Reflective Practice | 295 |
The Demise of Critical Theory in Economics | 315 |
An Invitation to a Science War | 337 |
Subjects or Objects of Knowledge? International Consultancy and the Production of Knowledge | 353 |
Beyond the Great Divide Becoming Civilized? | 135 |
The Self Psychoanalysis and Epistemology A Dialogue | 153 |
Complex Creative and Situated Interrogations Science in Action | 181 |
Science and Human WellBeing Toward a New Way of Structuring Scientific Activity | 183 |
Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Research on the Foundations of Quantum Physics E P Wigners Case | 203 |
The Splendors and Miseries of Science Coloniality Geopolitics of Knowledge and Epistemic Pluriversality | 375 |
Beyond Eurocentrism Systematic Knowledge in a Tropical Context A Manifesto | 397 |
From an Epistemology of Blindness to an Epistemology of Seeing | 407 |
About the Contributors | 439 |
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