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Record Nr.

UNINA9910317854903321

Autore

Zlatan Delić

Titolo

Epistemology and transformation of knowledge in global age / / editor, Zlatan Delic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IntechOpen, 2017

[Place of publication not identified] : , : IntechOpen, , 2017

ISBN

953-51-4727-7

953-51-3388-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 pages)

Disciplina

610.73

Soggetti

Knowledge and learning

Knowledge, Theory of - History - 21st century

Science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introductory Chapter: Sociology of Knowledge and Epistemological Paradox of Globalization / Zlatan Delić -- Theoretical-Epistemological Perspectives of Knowledge in the Global Era: A Conceptual Proposal / Jonathas Luiz Carvalho Silva, Maria Cleide Rodrigues Bernardino and Henriette Ferreira Gomes -- The Post-Modern Transcendental of Language in Science and Philosophy / Gianfranco Basti -- What is 'Fashion' Really? The Promise of an Ecumenical Analytic for Fashion Studies and Beyond in a Globalized World / Anna-Mari Almila and David Inglis -- Epistemology and the Transformation of Knowledge in the Global Age: God and the Epistemology of Mathematics / Peter Zamarovský --  Revisiting John Locke for Thinking About the Global Age: Knowledge, Politics, Religion, and Education / Gustavo Araújo Batista -- Post-industrial Virtue Epistemology on Globalized Games and Robotics / Theodore Kabouridis.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book consists of seven chapters containing multiple questions of the global socially epistemological situation in science and higher education. Despite the progress of techno-sciences, we are facing blind flaws in leading systems of knowledge and perception. The global era, in a paradox way, connects the new knowledge of economics,



postpolitics, postdemocracy, and biopolitical regulation of live and unpresentable forms of the global geo-located violence. Techno-optimism and techno-dictatorship in the twenty-first century coincide with the ideology of market, biopolitics of mandatory satisfaction, religious revivalism, and collapse of higher education. In order for sciences to recover, it is necessary to make a globally epistemological and moral turn toward the truth. The book shows that, when joint desires of the new economics of knowledge and technology erase epistemology (in a way to assign definitions of knowledge and rules and practices of the public usage of the mind), then the time for epistemology is on its way"--