Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science

<p>In bringing together a global community of philosophers, <i>Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science</i> 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p> <p>Introduction: Reimagining Epistemology and Philosophy of Science from a Global Perspective</p><p>Part I: Rethinking Philosophical Practices</p><p>1. Philosophy or Philosophies? Epistemology or Epistemologies? </p><p>2. Linguistic diversity in Philosophy</p><p>3. Anti-colonial Feminisms and Their Philosophies of Science: Latin American Issues</p><p>4. Philosophy of Science in China: Politicized, De-politicized, and Re-politicized</p><p>5. Experimental Philosophy</p><p>Part II: Reconfiguring Scientific Methods</p><p>6. Developing transdisciplinary practices: an interplay between disagreement and trust<b> </b></p><p>7. Sustainability science as a management science: Beyond the natural-social divide</p><p>8. "Science Must Fall" and the Call for Decolonization in South Africa </p><p>9. Structural Epistemic (In)Justice in Global Contexts</p><p>10. Excess and indigenous worldview: Philosophising on the problem of method </p><p>11. Radical Alterity, Representation, and the Ontological Turn</p><p>Part III: Negotiating Science in/with Society</p><p>12. The Democratization of Science</p><p>13. Science and Values – Multi-Strategic Research and Traditional S<i>aberes</i></p><p>14. Science and industry funding</p><p>15. Innovationism North and South</p><p>16. Post-truth and science: looking beyond the Global North</p><p>Part IV: Situating the Living World</p><p>17. Environmental Thinking in African Philosophy: A Defence of Biocentrism using the notion of Nma <i>Ndu</i></p><p>18. Cultural Evolution: A Case Study in Global Epistemologies of Science</p><p>19. What is an appropriate philosophy of human science for 21st century indigenous psychologies?</p><p>20. On local medical traditions</p><p>21. Revisiting the question of race and biology in the South African social sciences</p><p>Part V: Reimagining Abstract and Physical Worlds</p><p>22. Philosophical Cartography</p><p>23. Modelling the apparent spread of science: Some insights from the history of science in Japan</p><p>24. Buddhist Logic from a Global Perspective </p><p>25. Perspectives on the Indian Mathematical Tradition </p><p>26. Science as craftwork with integrity </p><p>Postscript </p>