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Record Nr.

UNINA9910595037803321

Autore

Kühne Olaf

Titolo

Science, space, society : an overview of the social production of knowledge / / Olaf Kühne, Karsten Berr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden, Germany : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-658-39140-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Disciplina

634.9

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Basic Principles and Structure of the Book -- 1.2 The Scientific World View in the Knowledge Society -- References -- 2 Logical Propaedeutic -- 2.1 Semiotics -- 2.1.1 Terms -- 2.1.2 Definitions -- 2.1.3 Concept Analysis and Concept Explanation -- 2.1.4 Intension and Extension -- 2.2 Statements -- 2.2.1 Statement-logical Connections -- 2.2.2 Contradiction, Tautology, Contingency -- 2.3 Arguments -- 2.3.1 Basic Components of an Argument -- 2.3.2 Inductive and Deductive Conclusions -- 2.3.3 The Hempel-Oppenheim Schema -- 2.3.4 The Abductive Conclusion -- 2.4 Fallacies -- 2.4.1 Formal Fallacies -- 2.4.2 Violation of a Rule of Reasonable Thinking and Arguing -- 2.4.3 Weak Reasons -- 2.4.4 Naturalistic and Normativist Fallacy -- References -- 3 Philosophy of Science-Philosophical Foundations and Positions -- 3.1 Philosophical Basics -- 3.1.1 Theory of Science and Other Sciences of Science -- 3.1.2 Criteria of Scientificity -- 3.1.3 Truth Theories -- 3.1.3.1 Correspondence Theory -- 3.1.3.2 Coherence Theory -- 3.1.3.3 Consensus Theory -- 3.1.3.4 Pragmatic Truth Theory -- 3.2 Essentialism -- 3.2.1 The Platonic-Aristotelian Tradition of Essentialism -- 3.2.2 Normative Consequences of Essentialism -- 3.3 Empiricism, Inductivism and the Principle of Causality -- 3.3.1 Preparation of Empiricism by Criticism of Prejudice and Induction: Francis Bacon -- 3.3.2 Empiricism's Justification Through a Return to the Experiential Origin of All Knowledge: John Locke -- 3.3.3



Exaggeration of Empiricism in the Form of Immaterialism: George Berkeley -- 3.3.4 The Limits of Empiricism, the Principle of Causality and the Induction: David Hume -- 3.4 Positivism, Ideal- and Normalsprache and Logischer Empirismus -- 3.4.1 Positivism -- 3.4.2 Ideal and Normal Language.

3.4.3 Neopositivism or Logical Empiricism of the "Vienna Circle": Verification Problem and Induction Problem -- 3.4.4 Criterion of Meaning and Pseudo-Problems -- 3.4.5 Physics as a Unified Science -- 3.5 Pragmatism and Hermeneutics -- 3.5.1 Pragmatism -- 3.5.2 Hermeneutics -- 3.6 Falsificationism: Karl Popper -- References -- 4 The Contextualization of Science I: Time -- 4.1 Karl Popper as the High Point and Culmination of Classical Philosophy of Science -- 4.2 Paradigm Shift: Thomas S. Kuhn -- 4.3 Theory Dynamics and 'Sophisticated Falsificationism': Imre Lakatos -- 4.4 Research Traditions: Larry Laudan -- 4.5 Methodological Pluralism: Paul Feyerabend -- References -- 5 The Contextualization of Science II: Social Affinity -- 5.1 The Social Embeddedness of Knowledge: Sociology of Knowledge -- 5.2 On the Genesis of Scientific Facts: Ludwik Fleck -- 5.3 Sociology of Science -- 5.4 Science and Politics: From World Views and the Mutual Dependence of Science and Politics Today -- 5.4.1 Political Ideational Systems and Their Implications on the Evaluation of Spaces: Socialism, Liberalism and Conservatism -- 5.4.2 The Transition from Mode 1 to Mode 2 Science -- References -- 6 Conceptions of Space and Theories of Spaces -- 6.1 'Space 1' Understandings: Container or Container Space, the Relational Space and the Space-Time Continuum -- 6.2 The Focus 'Space 2': Space as a Priori in Kant's Understanding of Space -- 6.3 'Space 3': The Social Production of Space-Spaces in Radical Constructivism and Discourse Theory -- 6.4 The Dominance of 'Space 3' Over 'Space 1': The Inscription of System Logics and the Domestication of Spaces -- 6.5 The Interaction of 'Space 2' and 'Space 3': The Social Constructivist Understanding of Space or Landscape -- 6.6 The Individual Experience: 'Space 2' Between 'Space 1' and 'Space 3'-Phenomenology.

6.7 The Relations of Space 2 to Spaces 1 and 3: Space as a Result of Action-Benno Werlen -- 6.8 The Powerful Inscriptions of Society in Space 1: The Space Theory of Pierre Bourdieu -- 6.9 The Shift in Perspective from the Separate Consideration of Space 1 and Space 3 to an Integrated Thirdspace-Edward Soja -- 6.10 More-than-Representational Approaches: Assemblage Theory and Actor-Network Theory -- 6.11 Everything Back to Synthesis? Neopragmatic Understandings of Space -- References -- 7 Developmental Lines and Breaks in Geography-Outline of a History of the Discipline -- References -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- References.