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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa.

Series:

Graven images (Lanham, Md.)

Graven images

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Conduct of life.

Justice (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xv, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

The book's main argument is that global social injustice is by and large epistemological injustice. It maintains that there can be no global social justice without global cognitive justice.

Contents:

A discourse on the sciences / Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Neither truce nor surrender : are the sciences wars over?

Pathways to cosmopolitan knowledges : in the aftermath of the discourse on the sciences / João Arriscado Nunes

Science wars : whither the two cultures / Richard Lee

On wars and revolutions / Peter Wagner

Authorizing knowledge in science and anthropology / Joan Fujimura

The structures of knowledge, or How many ways may we know? / Immanuel Wallerstein

Beyond the great divide : becoming civilized? / Isabelle Stengers

The self, psychoanalysis, and epistemology : a dialogue / Frank Summers and Leonard Kaplan

Complex, creative and situated interrogations : science in action

Science and human well-being : toward a new way of structuring scientific activity / Hugh Lacey

Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in the research on the foundations of quantum physics : E.P. Wigner's case / Olival Freire Jr.

The rhetoric of science in Darwin's On the origin of species / Anna Carolina K.P. Regner

Science on the edge : some reproductive biology paradigms / João Ramalho-Santos

Global cognitive justice : reconstructin knowledges and world making

Actors, networks, and new knowledge producers : social movements and the paradigmatic transition in the sciences / Arturo Escobar

Reconstructing unruly ecological complexity : science, interpretation, and critical, reflective practice / Peter Taylor

The demise of critical theory in economics / Francisco Louçã

An invitation to a science war / Shiv Visvanathan

Subjects or objects of knowledge? international consultancy and the production of knowledge in Mozambique / Maria Paula G. Meneses

The splendors and miseries of "science" : coloniality, geopolitics of knowledge, and epistemic pluriversality / Walter D. Mignolo

Beyond Eurocentrism : systemic knowledge in a tropical context. A manifesto / Orlando Fals Borda and Luis E. Mora-Osejo

From an epistemology of blindness to an epistemology of seeing / Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780739121948

0739121944

9780739121955

0739121952

OCLC:

124074770