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This volume of essays takes as its point of departure Martin Buber`s principle of dialogue, which he applied as a comprehensive hermeneutic method for the study of various cultural phenomena. The volume critically evaluates the methodological purchase to be gained by the introduction of Buber`s conception of dialogue in political theory, psychology and psychiatry, and religious studies.

Jewish thought hermeneutics, interdisciplinary studies

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What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions—biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and nature versus nurture—and look instead for the for puzzles and anomalies, the points of connection and overlap. These essays, converted from often humorous, sometimes autobiographical blog posts, form an extended meditation on the possibilities and frustrations of the life scientific. Pragmatically arguing from the intersection between social and biological sciences, Nettle reappraises the virtues of policy initiatives such as Universal Basic Income and income redistribution, highlighting the traps researchers and politicians are liable to encounter. This provocative, intelligent and self-critical volume is a testament to the possibilities of interdisciplinary study—whose virtues Nettle stridently defends—drawing from and having implications for a wide cross-section of academic inquiry. This will appeal to anybody curious about the implications of social and biological sciences for increasingly topical political concerns. It comes particularly recommended to Sciences and Social Sciences students and to scholars seeking to extend the scope of their field in collaboration with other disciplines.

science, social science, interdisciplinary studies, biology, scientific theories, academic research, human behaviour, behavioural studies

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This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational and national conditions for implementing Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) policies and practices. It gives the reader a thorough understanding of the different aspects of RRI, and of barriers and drivers of implementation of RRI related policies. It shows how different organisational and national contexts provide unique challenges and opportunities for bringing RRI into practice. The book provides concrete examples and offers the reader both a theory-based understanding of the topic, as well as guidance for action. The target audience encompasses, in addition to RRI students and scholars in particular, all students and scholars in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The book is also of interest to students and scholars in the fields of research ethics, philosophy of science, organisational governance in the research system and organisational theory more generally. Finally, the book is of use to practitioners in research conducting and funding organisations working to implement RRI.

Research Ethics --- Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary --- Administration, Organization and Leadership --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics --- Humanities and Social Sciences --- Organization and Leadership --- Economic Sociology --- organizational change --- responsible research and innovation --- science and innovation studies --- responsible innovation --- research ethics --- RRI keys and dimensions --- academic culture and RRI --- international research ethics --- RRI and national contetxts --- science technology and innovation --- Open Access --- Ethics & moral philosophy --- Philosophy of science --- Interdisciplinary studies --- Educational administration & organization --- Sociology: work & labour

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This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking the travel of data across different spaces, times and domains of research practice; and documenting how such journeys affect the use of data as evidence and the knowledge being produced. The volume captures the opportunities, challenges and concerns involved in making data move from the sites in which they are originally produced to sites where they can be integrated with other data, analysed and re-used for a variety of purposes. The in-depth study of data journeys provides the necessary ground to examine disciplinary, geographical and historical differences and similarities in data management, processing and interpretation, thus identifying the key conditions of possibility for the widespread data sharing associated with Big and Open Data. The chapters are ordered in sections that broadly correspond to different stages of the journeys of data, from their generation to the legitimisation of their use for specific purposes. Additionally, the preface to the volume provides a variety of alternative “roadmaps” aimed to serve the different interests and entry points of readers; and the introduction provides a substantive overview of what data journeys can teach about the methods and epistemology of research.

Philosophy of Science --- History of Science --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary --- Humanities and Social Sciences --- Big Data --- Data Epistemology --- Data Ethics --- Data Science --- Epistemology of Science --- Social Studies of Data --- Social Studies of Science --- Data Collection, Preparation and Reporting --- Data at the Large Hadron Collider --- Data Journeys in Medical Case Reports --- Data Ordering and Visualization --- Clustering Practices in Plant Phenomics --- Databases in Systems Biology --- Data access, Dissemination and Quality Assessment --- Methods for Climate Data Processing --- Data Journeys in Pharmaceutical Regulation --- Data Mixes in Big Data Linkage Practice --- Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning in Archaeology --- Data from Objects to Assets --- Open Access --- Philosophy of science --- History of science --- Interdisciplinary studies