| Description |
xv, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Graven images |
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Graven images (Lanham, Md.)
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| 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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Conduct of life.
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Justice (Philosophy)
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| Author |
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa.
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| LC no. |
2007017719 |
| ISBN |
9780739121948 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739121944 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780739121955 paperback alkaline paper |
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0739121952 paperback alkaline paper |
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