Science, Philosophy and Sustainability: The End of the Cartesian Dream

ISBN-13: 9780367668945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Angela Guimaraes Pereira; Silvio Funtowicz

Opis

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 proce

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ângela Guimarães Pereira is a scientific officer of the Joint Research Centre – European Commission, Ispra, Italy.

Silvio Funtowicz is Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities of the University of Bergen, Norway.