Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change

Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works, including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Reclaiming Reality, Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc, Reflection on Meta-reality and From Science to Emancipation. He is an editor of Critical Realism: Essential Readings and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. Currently he is a World Scholar at the University Of London Institute of Education..

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• Introduction— Chapter 1 – Contexts of Interdisciplinarity Chapter 2 – Coda to ‘Contexts of Interdisciplinarity’: The Case of Climate Change—Critical Realist Interdisciplinarity: A Research Agenda to Support Action on Global Warming Chapter 3 – Seven Theses on CO 2 –reductionism and Its Interdisciplinary Counteraction Chapter 4 – The Dangerous Climate of Disciplinary Tunnel Vision Chapter 5 – Consumption—A Missing Dimention in Climate Policy Chapter 6 – Global Warming and Cultural/Media Articulations of Emerging and Contending Social Imaginaries: A Critical Realist Perspective Chapter 7 – Climate change: Brokering Interdisciplinarity across the Physical and Social Sciences Chapter 8 –– The Need for a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Development in a Hot and Crowded World Chapter 9 – Knowledge, Democracy and Action in Response to Climate Change Chapter 10 – Technological Idealism –The Case of the Thorium Fuel Cycle: A Critical Analysis Chapter 11– Food Crisis and Global Warming: Critical Realism and the Need to Re-institutionalize Science Chapter 12— Towards a Dialectics of Knowledge and Care in the Global System Chapter 13—Epilogue – A Conference Tourist and His Confessions: On the Travelling Circus of Climate Change