Chapter Interlude : On shortcomings of the instrumentalist view

• Tác giả: Jan Cornelius Schmidt
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1032118468
• ISBN-13: 978-1138230071
• ISBN: 97813153871096
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 001 Knowledge
• Thông tin xuất bản: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (10 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 241690
• Chủ đề: 1. Impact of science & technology on society

Tóm tắt

 This interlude chapter-between the analysis and assessment of the status-quo (chapters 2-5
  first part of the book) and the visions and prospects for the future of interdisciplinary knowledge production (the following chapters 6-8
  second part of the book)-addresses shortcomings of the instrumentalist view of interdisciplinarity and its isolated focus on recipes and organization procedures. This chapter questions the positivist fact/value dichotomy
  it refers to critical materialist and transcendental pragmatist thinking
  it considers viewpoints of environmentalism and reflects on insights from phenomenology and from Martin Heidegger
  and it discusses recent developments resulting from a participatory approach among the sciences which could contribute to a new view of human-nature relations (self-organization theory, complex systems theory). Essentially, the interlude chapter paves the way for a critical-reflexive concept of problem-oriented interdisciplinarity. Based on the analysis here, the final three chapters provide a theoretical framework (chapter 6) and present case studies (chapter 7 & 8) showing that a more critical-reflexive perspective in (and with) interdisciplinarity is feasible and can be incorporated in the practice of interdisciplinarity for a sustainable future of our knowledge society.