Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Category: Philosophy of social science

  • The new production of knowledge: The dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies

    In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge – scientific, social and cultural – is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming…

  • Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

    “Re-Thinking Science” presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a ‘line’ to demarcate them. The view persists that there is a one-way communication flow from science…

  • “El cientificismo”, una conferencia de Mario Bunge

    Sostenía Isaiah Berlin que los pensadores y los artistas podían dividirse en dos grandes grupos, de acuerdo con una particular interpretación del fragmento del poeta Arquíloco “muchas cosas sabe la zorra, pero el erizo sabe una sola, y grande”. Así, según Berlin, el grupo de los erizos estaría formado por aquellas personas convencidas de la…

  • Mario Bunge: “Ciencias sociales con números”

  • “De todas las pseudociencias, la más peligrosa es la teoría económica ortodoxa”. Entrevista Mario Bunge · · ·

    Daniel Arjona entrevistó para el diario español El Mundo al filósofo argentino radicado en Canadá Mario Bunge. Recién regresado a Montreal (donde vive) tras dos semanas de vacaciones en las Antillas, Mario Bunge (Buenos Aires, 1919) responde por correo electrónico a El Cultural con rapidez y minuciosidad insólitas a cada nueva tanda de preguntas de…

  • Why “there is no such thing as economic science”?

    I have recently referred to an interview made to Piketty where he states “there is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences”. He argues that “economic processes involve social control” and that “we should teach ‪economics‬ much more in conjunction with economic‪ ‎history‬, social history, political history, political science” That said, the…

  • “There is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences” #piketty #income #wealth #distribution

    Thomas ‪Piketty‬: “There is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences, economic processes involved social control… We should teach ‪economics‬ much more in conjunction with economic‪ ‎history‬, social history, political history, political science. It’s just impossible to study issues such as dynamics of ‪income‬ and ‪wealth‬, distribution‬ in a purely economic manner.…

  • Carta aberta aos círculos escépticos e ao cientificismo

    Nos últimos días estiven a debatir en facebook sobre os factores que condicionan a saúde das persoas a raíz deste interesante artigo sobre o cáncer en España. Un extenso e rigoroso estudo que representa as diferencias na incidencia de diferentes tipos de cáncer por municipios en toda España. O debate acabou derivando na relación entre…

  • Early maps and diagrams. A little bit of history

    The earliest seeds of visualization arose in geometric diagrams, in tables of the positions of stars and other celestial bodies, and in the making of maps to aid in navigation and exploration. The idea of coordinates was used by ancient Egyptian surveyors in laying out towns, earthly and heavenly positions were located by something akin to latitude and…

  • A Brief History of Data Visualization. Michael Friendly (2006)

    It is common to think of statistical graphics and data visualization as relatively modern developments in statistics. In fact, the graphic representation of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into the histories of the earliest map-making and visual depiction, and later into thematic cartography, statistics and statistical graphics, medicine, and other fields. Along the way, developments in…