Knowledge Communities in Europe: Exchange, Integration and Its Limits - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3658188510 ISBN 13: 9783658188511

Publisher: Springer VS, 2018

Synopsis

The publication presents research results on a multitude of knowledge exchange processes in post-enlightenment Europe. These focus on the question in how far deeply rooted processes of knowledge exchange by transnational intellectual discourses and international expert communities have contributed to a  variety of networks of European intellectual identities and research practices. These practices again constitute a fertile framework for de-territorialised and de-nationalised exchange of knowledge that might contribute to contagious processes of emancipation, cooperation as well as problem solving.

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How do transnational communities of scientists emerge and evolve, and how does scientific cooperation interact with social and political integration in Europe? This collection assembles a wide array of analyses from philosophy and sociology of science and the social sciences tackling these questions from various perspectives. The contributions from philosophy investigate the foundations of social epistemology, and the features and development of significant transnational research communities in the natural sciences, while those from sociology and political science examine the various forms of interaction between transborder scientific and other expert activities and broader social and political integration. They are united by advancing our understanding of the complex network of transnational intellectual discourses, identities, interests, and integration in Europe.
ContentsDiscoveries of oxygen and the «Chemical Revolution» in the context of European scientific networks. – From interaction to integration? Transnational scientific communities in biology. – Science and the manufacture of a political order: A sociological study of the European manned space programme. – European research programmes: Spaces of knowledge or economic tool? – Expert communities and security: Neofunctional integration in European policing practices. – An epistemic-consequentialist social epistemology as an epistemological perspective concerning the investigation of a common, European knowledge community  
Target GroupsLecturers and students of natural and social sciences and philosophyPractitioners in science promotion and science management
The EditorsDr. Bertold Schweitzer is Lecturer in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Dundee.Dr. Thomas Sukopp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy/Didactics of Philosophy at the University of Siegen.

About the Author

Dr. Bertold Schweitzer is Lecturer in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Dundee.Dr. Thomas Sukopp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy/Didactics of Philosophy at the University of Siegen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer VS
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 3658188510
• ISBN 13: 9783658188511
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170
• Editor: Schweitzer Bertold, Sukopp Thomas