ABSTRACT
In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science) and related fields (e.g. decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, global history of science) can contribute to critical engagement with global dimensions of knowledge and science.
Global challenges such as climate change, food production, and infectious diseases raise complex questions about scientific knowledge production and its interactions with local knowledge systems and social realities. As academic philosophy provides relatively little reflection on global negotiations of knowledge, many pressing scientific and societal issues remain disconnected from core debates in epistemology and philosophy of science.
This book is an invitation to broaden agendas of academic philosophy by presenting epistemology and philosophy of science as globally engaged fields that address heterogeneous forms of knowledge production and their interactions with local livelihoods, practices, and worldviews. This integrative ambition makes the book equally relevant for philosophers and interdisciplinary scholars who are concerned with methodological and political challenges at the intersection of science and society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part I|61 pages
Rethinking philosophical practices
chapter Chapter 3|12 pages
Anti-colonial feminisms and their philosophies of science
chapter Chapter 4|10 pages
Philosophy of science in China
part II|67 pages
Reconfiguring scientific methods
chapter Chapter 6|15 pages
Developing transdisciplinary practices
chapter Chapter 7|14 pages
Sustainability science as a management science
part III|53 pages
Negotiating science in/with society
part IV|57 pages
Situating the living world
chapter Chapter 17|9 pages
Environmental thinking in African philosophy
chapter Chapter 19|11 pages
What is an appropriate philosophy of human science for 21st-century indigenous psychologies?
chapter Chapter 21|11 pages
Revisiting the question of race and biology in the South African social sciences
part V|58 pages
Reimagining abstract and physical worlds