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Cognitive justice in a global world : prudent knowledges for a decent life / edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Graven imagesPublication details: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2007.Description: xv, 446 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780739121955 (pbk.)
  • 0739121952 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121 SAN 22
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Contents:
A discourse on the sciences / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- The dominant paradigm -- The crisis in the dominant paradigm -- The emergent paradigm -- Neither truce nor surrender : are the sciences wars over? -- Pathways to cosmopolitan knowledges : in the aftermath of the discourse on the sciences / Jo�ao Arriscado Nunes -- Changing the epistemological debate -- All natural-scientific knowledge is social-scientific -- All knowledge is self-knowledge -- All knowledge is local and total -- All scientific knowledge aims at becoming common sense -- An anachronistic and out-of-place polemics -- Whither the "two cultures" : another volley in the "science wars" / Richard E. Lee -- On wars and revolutions / Peter Wagner -- Science and the question of representation -- Science and its critics : a recurring debate -- Science and its applications : science-inspired transformations of the world -- Varieties of epistemic certainty -- Epistemology and critique : knowledge as regulation and knowledge as emancipation -- Scientific authority and the post euclidean revolution in mathematics / Joan Fujimura -- The "science wars" -- Constructivism in science studies -- Scientific authority and the posteuclidean revolution in mathematics -- Canons and "purity" control in 19th-century geometry -- Discipline and authority in science -- Parody as social control -- Conclusion: Crafting knowledge in science and anthropology -- The structures of knowledge, or how many ways may we know / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Becoming civilized : beyond the great divide / Isabelle Stengers -- The move of archimedes and the chinese smile -- In the same boat -- As a matter of fact, we're not so different from the others -- The five horizons of research -- Bringing the networks to politics? -- Democratizing democracy? -- The self, psychoanalysis and epistemology / Leonard Kaplan and Frank Summers -- Complex, creative and situated interrogations : science in action -- Science and human well-being : toward a new way of structuring scientific activity / Hugh Lacey -- Science as value free -- Impartiality, autonomy, neutrality -- Moments of scientific activity -- Scientific activity -- Scientific understanding -- Strategy : constraints on theories, criteria for selection of data, what possibilities to investigate -- Mutually reinforcing relations between adopting a strategy and holding values -- Moments of scientific activity, possible roles for values at them -- Comment on the controversy about um discurso sobre as ci�encias -- A new way of structuring scientific activity -- Reciprocity of the natural and social sciences.
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A discourse on the sciences / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- The dominant paradigm -- The crisis in the dominant paradigm -- The emergent paradigm -- Neither truce nor surrender : are the sciences wars over? -- Pathways to cosmopolitan knowledges : in the aftermath of the discourse on the sciences / Jo�ao Arriscado Nunes -- Changing the epistemological debate -- All natural-scientific knowledge is social-scientific -- All knowledge is self-knowledge -- All knowledge is local and total -- All scientific knowledge aims at becoming common sense -- An anachronistic and out-of-place polemics -- Whither the "two cultures" : another volley in the "science wars" / Richard E. Lee -- On wars and revolutions / Peter Wagner -- Science and the question of representation -- Science and its critics : a recurring debate -- Science and its applications : science-inspired transformations of the world -- Varieties of epistemic certainty -- Epistemology and critique : knowledge as regulation and knowledge as emancipation -- Scientific authority and the post euclidean revolution in mathematics / Joan Fujimura -- The "science wars" -- Constructivism in science studies -- Scientific authority and the posteuclidean revolution in mathematics -- Canons and "purity" control in 19th-century geometry -- Discipline and authority in science -- Parody as social control -- Conclusion: Crafting knowledge in science and anthropology -- The structures of knowledge, or how many ways may we know / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Becoming civilized : beyond the great divide / Isabelle Stengers -- The move of archimedes and the chinese smile -- In the same boat -- As a matter of fact, we're not so different from the others -- The five horizons of research -- Bringing the networks to politics? -- Democratizing democracy? -- The self, psychoanalysis and epistemology / Leonard Kaplan and Frank Summers -- Complex, creative and situated interrogations : science in action -- Science and human well-being : toward a new way of structuring scientific activity / Hugh Lacey -- Science as value free -- Impartiality, autonomy, neutrality -- Moments of scientific activity -- Scientific activity -- Scientific understanding -- Strategy : constraints on theories, criteria for selection of data, what possibilities to investigate -- Mutually reinforcing relations between adopting a strategy and holding values -- Moments of scientific activity, possible roles for values at them -- Comment on the controversy about um discurso sobre as ci�encias -- A new way of structuring scientific activity -- Reciprocity of the natural and social sciences.

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