Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 590 g
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 590 g
ISBN: 978-1-4200-9228-8
Verlag: EPFL Press
Through a series of original essays, this book unites an international team of renowned researchers and educators around the theme of knowledge dialogue. Spanning topics from natural complexity to neuroscience, from education theory to climate change, from immunology to archaelogy and human migrations,it allows for an atmosphere of constructive criticism and enables the ambition to build a new foundation for the transdisciplinary process.
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AcknowledgementsWhere, and Whence ?by André HurstThe Rules of the Game for a Knowledge Dialoguexby Dame Julia HigginsIntroductionFor a World Knowledge Dialogueby Frédéric Darbellay, Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte andFrancis WaldvogelChapter 1 Complexity and Neurosciences in Dialogue:Towards a New Theory of the Brain ?1.1 From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness:How Matter Becomes ImaginationAnalysis by Frédéric Darbellay of the presentationby Gerald M. Edelman1.2 Towards a Neuroscience of the Capable Person: Unity, Diversity andOneself as AnotherAnalysis by Frédéric Darbellay of the presentationby Jean-Pierre ChangeuxChapter 2 New Discoveries Defining Complexity2.1 Searching for Simplicity in Complexity; Growth, Innovation,Economies of Scale, and the Pace of Life from Cells to CitiesSummary by Moira Cockell and Francis Walvogelof the presentation by Geoffrey West2.2 Understanding and Managing Planetary ComplexitySummary by Moira Cockell, Francis Walvogel andS. Kadner of the presentation by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber2.3 Why Physics is Easy and Autism is Hardby Ian HackingChapter 3 Complexity and Knowledge Dialogue in Discussion3.1 Knowing Complex Systems: The Limits of Understandingby Paul Cilliers3.2 Consilience and the Status of Human-Level Truthby Edward G. Slingerland3.3 Boundaries: Boundaries between Disciplines and Boundariesin the Mindby Ernest Hartmann3.4 An Immunologist’s View on Establishmentof a Knowledge Dialogueby Daniela Finke3.5 Towards a Nonmodern Nonhumanismby Mark M. Freed3.6 Promoting Scientific Dialogue as a Lifelong Learning Processby Michel Alhadeff-JonesChapter 4 Origin and Migrations of Modern Humans: Palaeontology,Anthropology, Genetics and Linguistics in Dialogue4.1 Human Migrations in Prehistory – the Cultural RecordSummary by Moira Cockell of the presentation by Ofer Bar-Yosef4.2 The Origins of Modern Humans: Linguistic IssuesSummary by Moira Cockell of the presentation by Bernard Victorri4.3 A Genetic View of Human OriginsSummary by Moira Cockell of the presentation by Svante PääboChapter 5 Knowledge Dialogue: Academic Institutional Governance,Education and Experiences5.1 Societal Responsibility of Universities. Wisdom and ForesightLeading to a Better Worldby Richard R. Ernst5.2 Patterned Diversity in Interdisciplinary Dialogues: Lessons froman Empirical Study of Interdisciplinary Research at the Frontierby Veronica Boix Mansilla5.3 Increasing Scientific Literacy in Undergraduate Education:A Case Study from "Frontiers of Science" at Columbia Universityby Timon P. McPhearson, Stuart P.D. Gill, Robert Pollack, andJulia E. Sable5.4 Organizing Cross-disciplinary Dialogue in Academia:Debating Complexity and Organic Development atSingapore Management Universityby Markus B. Karner5.5 New Initiatives of the University of Tokyo toward Establishing aStrategy for Sustainability through Knowledge Structuring anda Transdisciplinary Approachby Akimasa Sumi5.6 BRAINetwork: an Experiment in Transdisciplinarityby Zalina Ismail5.7 Knowledge, Culture and Interdisciplinary Dialogueby Ravi de Costa5.8 The Paradigm Shift in the Relationship Between Science andSocietyby Mary Louise Gifford5.9 Anthropology in the United States – when Dialogue IS theDiscipline: A Multi-level Evolutionary Consideration ofKnowledge Productionby Dan T. A. EisenbergConclusion and PerspectivesWhere and Whence ?Frédéric Darbellay, Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte,Francis WaldvogelContributors
