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Author(s): Jan Cornelius Schmidt

ISBN(s): 9781138230071, 1138230073

Edition: 1

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Year: 2021

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 1138230073
ISBN 13: 9781138230071
Author: 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 Anthropocene, this engaged philosophy provides a novel critical perspective on interdisciplinarity in science policy and research practice. It draws upon the original spirit of interdisciplinarity as an environmentalist concept and advocates an essential change in human-nature relations. The author utilizes the rich tradition of philosophy for case study analysis and develops a framework to disentangle the various forms of inter- and transdisciplinarity. Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity offers a foundation for a critical-reflexive program of interdisciplinarity conducive to a sustainable future for our knowledge society and contributes to fields such as sustainability sciences, social ecology, environmental ethics, technology assessment, complex systems, philosophy of nature, and philosophy of science. It injects a fresh way of thinking on interdisciplinarity – and supports researchers as well as science policy makers, university managers, and academic administrators in critical-reflexive knowledge production for sustainable development.

Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity Studies in Science Society and Sustainability 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Introduction: What does the philosophy of interdisciplinarity offer?

Notes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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