Cognitive justice in a global world
Subtitle: prudent knowledges for a decent life
By: edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Contributors: Santos, Boaventura de Sousa
Series: Graven images; Graven images (Lanham, Md.)
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780739121948; 9780739121955
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy; Social sciences -- Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of; Conduct of life; Justice (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: A discourse on the sciences / Boaventura de Sousa Santos; title: Neither truce nor surrender : are the sciences wars over?; title: Pathways to cosmopolitan knowledges : in the aftermath of the discourse on the sciences / João Arriscado Nunes; title: Science wars : whither the two cultures / Richard Lee; title: On wars and revolutions / Peter Wagner; title: Authorizing knowledge in science and anthropology / Joan Fujimura; title: The structures of knowledge, or How many ways may we know? / Immanuel Wallerstein; title: Beyond the great divide : becoming civilized?  / Isabelle Stengers; title: The self, psychoanalysis, and epistemology : a dialogue / Frank Summers and Leonard Kaplan; title: Complex, creative and situated interrogations : science in action; title: Science and human well-being : toward a new way of structuring scientific activity / Hugh Lacey; title: Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in the research on the foundations of quantum physics : E.P. Wigner's case / Olival Freire Jr.; title: The rhetoric of science in Darwin's On the origin of species / Anna Carolina K.P. Regner; title: Science on the edge : some reproductive biology paradigms / João Ramalho-Santos; title: Global cognitive justice : reconstructin knowledges and world making; title: Actors, networks, and new knowledge producers : social movements and the paradigmatic transition in the sciences / Arturo Escobar; title: Reconstructing unruly ecological complexity : science, interpretation, and critical, reflective practice / Peter Taylor; title: The demise of critical theory in economics / Francisco Louçã; title: An invitation to a science war / Shiv Visvanathan; title: Subjects or objects of knowledge? international consultancy and the production of knowledge in Mozambique / Maria Paula G. Meneses; title: The splendors and miseries of "science" : coloniality, geopolitics of knowledge, and epistemic pluriversality / Walter D. Mignolo; title: Beyond Eurocentrism : systemic knowledge in a tropical context. A manifesto / Orlando Fals Borda and Luis E. Mora-Osejo; title: From an epistemology of blindness to an epistemology of seeing / Boaventura de Sousa Santos