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Freiheit von Wissenschaft
Die Wissenschaft als Leitinstanz der Wissensgesellschaft verspricht Fortschritt, Wohlstand und die Befreiung des Menschen, die weitestgehende individuelle Autonomie – wenn man ihr nur selbst ausreichend Freiheit gewährt. Doch das Dogma von der Wissenschaft als Heilsbringerin ist brüchig geworden. In seinem Essay zeigt Christian Bachhiesl negative Auswirkungen dieses Wechselverhältnisses auf: Was die Wissenschaft und im Verbund mit ihr die Technik uns an Fortschritt auch bringen, es wird neue Abhängigkeiten, normative Imperative und die Kontrolle von immer mehr Lebensvollzügen geben. Kaum ein Bereich unseres alltäglichen Lebens bleibt vom Einfluss der Wissenschaft verschont. Der Exzes...
Legal Theory and the Media of Law
As many disciplines in the humanities have experienced a focus on culture’s impact in recent decades, questions surrounding the significance of media such as writing, print and computer networks have become increasingly relevant. This book seeks to demonstrate that a media and cultural theory perspective can also be highly productive for legal theory.
Wissenschaft und Hochschulbildung im Kontext von Wirtschaft und Medien
Thematisiert werden in diesem Sammelband die neuen gesellschaftlichen Anforderungen an die Wissensproduktion und die Hochschulbildung. Zum einen geht es um die Frage, wie die steigenden Erwartungen an Effizienz und Effektivität innerhalb des Wissenschaftssystems und des tertiären Bildungssektors der Hochschulen in Informationen und strukturelle Neuerungen umgesetzt werden. Das heißt, wie reagieren die Hochschulen auf die neuen Funktionsanforderungen aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft? Zum anderen wird in den Beiträgen diskutiert, inwieweit die Wissenschaft und die Hochschulen den Umweg über die Medien suchen, um sich und ihren Kerninstitutionen im steigenden Wettbewerb Legitimation zu verschaffen.
Handbuch Wissenschaftspolitik
Das Wissenschaftssystem befindet sich in einer Phase der tief greifenden Umgestaltung. Erstmals gibt es mit diesem Handbuch einen systematischen Überblick zur Wissenschaftspolitik auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung. Theorien, Konzepte, Wirkungsfelder und Steuerungsinstrumente werden ebenso wie alle wichtigen Akteure und Institutionen der Wissenschaftspolitik behandelt. Abgerundet wird das Handbuch durch einen Blick auf einige ausgewählte Länder.
Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector
2007b: 115 ff.; Jansen 2007c: 236 ff.). “Governance patterns” here means a chain of interconnected mechanisms which can be observed empirically. “Governance p- terns” can be roughly de?ned as “complex regulatory structures coordinating the actions of interdependent actors”. Governance patterns can relate to hierarchical as well as to lateral coordination mechanisms. Enforcement can be based on law, p- fessional norms or informal and implicit norms or customs. Moreover, the regulatory structures or individual mechanisms inside them can be established and sanctioned by public as well as by private actors. There is in fact not necessarily an actor in charge of controlling outcomes as for instance in market competition. In the next section, I will introduce the reader to the changing role of the state in science policy. The third section presents the governance model for the p- lic research sector which was developed by the research group and underlies the 1 contributions in this anthology. The ?nal section gives an overview of the papers.
The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy
The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy explores how the various discursive strategies of old and new pragmatisms are related, and what their pertinence is to the relationship between pragmatism and philosophy as a whole. The contributors bridge the divide between analytic and continental philosophy through a transcontinental desire to work on common problems in a common philosophical language. Irrespective of which side of the divide one stands on, pragmatic philosophy has gained ascendancy over the traditional concerns of a representationalist epistemology that has determined much of the intellectual and cultural life of modernity. This book details how contemporary philosophy will emerge from this recognition and that, in fact, this emergence is already underway.
Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences
An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical case studies from around the world, including India, the Americas, South Africa, Australia and Europe, it engages in debates concerning public sociology and explores South-South research collaborations specific to the social sciences. Contributions transcend established critiques of Eurocentrism to make space for the idea of global social sciences and truly transnation...
Non-State Actors and Sustainable Development in Brazil
This book investigates how non-state actors have become key drivers of the diffusion of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Brazil. The UN ranks Brazil as the most biodiverse country in the world, but the country’s environment has never been under greater threat, with the rise of multiple crises bringing mounting challenges to socioeconomic development and environmental protection. As state support has fallen away, non-state actors have actively engaged and eventually mobilized other social actors towards the promotion of the SDGs and the implementation of the UN agenda. This book asks why it is that non-state actors have dedicated so much time, effort and resources to promot...
Intercultural Thinking in African Philosophy
This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka. The book challenges western-centric visions of an African future by demonstrating the richness of thought that can be found in African and Afrodiasporic philosophy. The book shows how thinkers such as Serequeberhan have criticised the inconsistencies in Kant’s work, whereas others such as Wiredu, Gyekye, Appiah and Mbembe have referenced his work more positively and developed progressive political concepts such as the metanational s...
Explaining Understanding
What does it mean to understand something? What types of understanding can be distinguished? Is understanding always provided by explanations? And how is it related to knowledge? Such questions have attracted considerable interest in epistemology recently. These discussions, however, have not yet engaged insights about explanations and theories developed in philosophy of science. Conversely, philosophers of science have debated the nature of explanations and theories, while dismissing understanding as a psychological by-product. In this book, epistemologists and philosophers of science together address basic questions about the nature of understanding, providing a new overview of the field. False theories, cognitive bias, transparency, coherency, and other important issues are discussed. Its 15 original chapters are essential reading for researchers and graduate students interested in the current debates about understanding.
