Epistemologies and philosophies of a global science

With the participation of a crowd from the community of global philosophers, the book Epistemologies and Philosophies of Global Science works on developing new perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by clarifying how frameworks from academic philosophy (such as the theory of the anticipatory stance, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science), and other related fields (such as decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, and the history of global science) can contribute a critical contribution to addressing the global dimensions of knowledge and science. Global challenges such as climate change, food production, and infectious diseases raise complex questions about the production of scientific knowledge and its interactions with local knowledge systems and social realities. And since academic philosophy provides only relatively little thinking on global negotiations about knowledge, many pressing scientific and societal issues remain disconnected from the main discussions in epistemology and philosophy of science. This book is an invitation to expand the scope of academic philosophy agendas by presenting epistemology and philosophy of science as two global specialized fields that address various forms of knowledge production and their interactions with ways of living, local practices, and dominant perspectives. This integrative ambition makes this book highly relevant to philosophers and researchers in interdisciplinary fields, as well as to those interested in methodological and political challenges at the intersection of science and society.