Science, Philosophy and Sustainability
The End of the Cartesian Dream
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ISBN-13:
9781138796409
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2015
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Angela Guimaraes Pereira
Gewicht:
449 g
Format:
234x156x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book proposes to consider new ways in which science can be used to sustain our planet and enrich our lives. For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge. This process of change has to include a new commitment to knowledge creation and transmission and its role in a plural society. Social responsibility has historically played an important role in science and engineering, but has lost momentum nowadays because many facets of science are lost due to reduction caused by the hybridization of science and policy. This book helps to release and reactivate social responsibility within contemporary science and technology.
Foreword by Mario Giampietro, series Editor Preface: Descartes and the rediscovery of ignorance Jerome Ravetz Introduction: Cartesian Dreams Part 1: Original Matters 1. Plenty of Room at the Top 2. The Tower of Babel, Pentecostal Science, and the Language of Epidemics 3. Love Life or Fear Death? Cartesian Dreams and Awakenings Part 2: Techno-Science and Innovation 4. The Ontological Objection to Life TechnoSciences 5. The dream of the Internet of Things: Do we really want, can and need to be smart? 6. From Biobanks to Genetic Digital Networks: Why official pre-identified values may not work 7. Geoengineering dreams Part 3: Quality in A World Of Connected Bytes 8. Animals and beggars: imaginative numbers in the real world 9. Evidence-based Policy at the End of the Cartesian Dream: the case of mathematical modelling
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