Common Knowledge

Name: Common Knowledge
Brand: EPFL Press English Imprint
SKU: 9782889143276
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ISBN: 978-2-88914-327-6

The Challenge of Transdisciplinarity

de Moira Cockell (directeur de publication), Jérôme Billotte (directeur de publication), Frédéric Darbellay (directeur de publication), Francis Waldvogel (directeur de publication)

janvier 2011

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256 pages Téléchargement après achat

45,00 €

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Présentation

Knowledge is a living thing, sustained through dynamic reflexive processes. Whether at the level of cellular signaling pathways, Internet design, or sociocultural interactions, human understanding grows and accrues value through bi-directional transmission across networks of emitters and receptors. And the cross-fertilization of ideas from different sources is what keeps the process vigorous. This book represents a coherent milestone in cultivating constructive exchange between experts and specialists from the physical, natural, economic and human science disciplines. From its sixteen original and highly personal essays portraying multiple facets of the knowledge creation process, emerge a common sense of purpose and a framework of new tools and methodologies for interdisciplinary dialogue.

Sommaire

Foreword
Introduction
Transforming knowledge into wisdom
Common responsibilities
Public, relational and organizational trust in economic effairs
Learning from the Past : how to bring ethics and economics in line with the real nature of the human being
Collective intelligence and business enterprise 2.0
Science and the social contract: on the purposes, uses and abuses of science
Scientific knowledge leads to moral responsibilities – Case study synthetic biology
Common goals
War and peace: conflict and cooperation in a tropical insect society
Towards understanding conflict elicitation and conflict resolution: challenges for brain, behavioral and social sciences
Academic prejudice and the spirit of humbleness
Kachile – Concepts, tools & strategies for a post-conflict environment
disciplines for the common good: from insular to systemic interdisciplinarity frontiers research: seek, share & create
Common language
Towards a science of collective intelligence
Collective quality: how to design collective standards of knowledge?
Web Science and reflective practice
Science blogs in research and popularization of science: why, how and for whom ?
Understanding the science of stories