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Science and the Other
An Inquiry into the Geopolitics of Knowledge, Potiguara Ontology and the Hard Problem of Modern Science
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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Science and the Other is about modern science and its role in the ruling geopolitics of onto-epistemic violence. Tracing back over a century in scientific meta-discourse in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, feminist and decolonial STS, the book explores how scientific universalism has been functioning as an ideological machine for globalising structures of exploitation. By seeking “objective truth” in a world divided into subjects and objects, culture and nature, humans and non-humans, "developed" and "underdeveloped" people and regions, modern science tacitly naturalises structural inequalities and legitimises the exploitation of both non-human nature and a major part of humanity. Modern science has given us the superpowers that brought about the “Anthropocene”, but unfortunately not the wisdom to face its existential challenges. There is an urgent need to engage with Other(ed), marginalised ways of knowing in equitable, pluriversal dialogue about the knowledge needed to build liveable world(s). Science and the Other is an in-depth inquiry into the question of what actually hinders us from engaging into cross-fertilising pluriversal dialogue. Based on a three years action research with the Potiguara in north-east Brazil, the book offers a comparative analysis of Potiguara's and scientific cosmologies. Scientists and philosophers have been struggling to provide a coherent naturalistic theory of mind and matter – with little success. Instead, evidence from quantum physics and neuroscience suggests a variety of possible ontological interpretations, some of which describe a world made up by entities and principles with properties comparable to those in the Potiguara´s world. However, the Potiguara´s cosmology uses radically different metaphors, thereby painting a radically different picture of “reality”, and thus, allowing for onto-epistemic shifts and new insights. Accordingly, a dialogue between modern science and Other, hitherto excluded knowledge cultures should not only be possible; looking through the Others´ lens might also help us find alternative solutions to old, recalcitrant problems (e.g. relativism or the mind-body problem) and open our eyes for new horizons and alternative futures beyond the scope of modern/colonial epistemologies.This is an open access book.
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Ethical values are involved in every intentional human action – both in research, governance and civil society. The question of this book is: what ethical values, challenges, and actions are associated with the commons and commoning? Do commons have a specific ethical and moral orientation? How can we engage with different and plural orientations? While the ethical values of commons may be implied from our research concepts, frameworks and methods, they are rarely made explicit or linked to ethical claims or theories in philosophy. This book aims to build awareness around the different ethical values, positions, and perspectives linked to commons, common property, and commoning research and practice. Building ethical awareness can help scholars strengthen their tools and skills for analyzing commons. Improving ethical awareness can give scholars a range of philosophical arguments to navigate and justify links between ethical values, actions, and outcomes. Current literature on the commons offers a diversity of concepts and arguments related to the benefits and challenges of commons, common property and commoning for the governance and sustainability of social-ecological systems. One challenge is that commons are not one thing. The term ‘commons’ is broadly used to represent different objects of shared interest, types of governance, social actions, and ideological positions. Given the diversity of commons and their tendency to have strong place-based dynamics, a plurality of ethical orientations and claims are observed and perhaps expected in the literature. Acknowledging and working with multiple ethical orientations, theories, and perspectives can enable richer analytical and reflective perspectives that can improve our engagement with the ethical complexities of researching and governing commons. This is an open access book.