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an introduction to community-based philosophy
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
In 'Transformative Transdisciplinarity', David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani synthesize insights from the philosophy of science and empirical action research to address planetary crises. This book addresses the fundamental epistemological, ontological, and political questions of transdisciplinarity through a framework of partial overlaps, aiming for a transformative vision of collaborative science.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Global Challenges, Local Struggles -- 1.1 Modernity: The View from Siribinha and Poças -- 1.2 Transdisciplinarity: The View from Forikrom -- 1.3 Why Community-Based Philosophy? -- 1.4 The Structure of This Book -- 2 On Transdisciplinarity and Transformation -- 2.1 The New Politics of Knowledge -- 2.1.1 The Promise of Transdisciplinarity -- 2.1.2 Epistemic Paternalism -- 2.1.3 Epistemic Diversity -- 2.1.4 Epistemic Decolonization -- 2.1.5 Against Metadualism
2.1.6 Has Decolonization Lost Its Way? -- 2.2 The Partial Overlaps Framework -- 2.2.1 Navigating Between Inclusion and Exclusion -- 2.2.2 The Plurality of Local Biologies -- 2.2.3 Partial Overlaps in Epistemologies, Ontologies, and Value Systems -- 2.2.4 Three Modes of Epistemic Marginalization -- 3 Community-Based Epistemology -- 3.1 Partially Overlapping Epistemologies -- 3.1.1 Transformations of Epistemology -- 3.1.2 Integrationist Pluralism or Standpoint Theory? -- 3.1.3 Epistemic Injustice and Material Inequality -- 3.1.4 The Myth of Two Knowledge Systems
3.1.5 Individuating Knowledge Systems -- 3.1.6 From Demarcating to Relating Knowledge Systems -- 3.1.7 Relating Epistemological Toolboxes -- 3.1.8 What's Left of Objectivity? -- 3.2 Epistemologies in Action -- 3.2.1 Epistemology Beyond the Armchair -- 3.2.2 Mixed-Methods Philosophy -- 3.2.3 Single-Cause Explanations: Periodic Massunim cycles -- 3.2.4 Multicausal Explanations: Fish Seasonality -- 3.2.5 Multicausal Explanations: Robalo Water -- 3.2.6 Identifying Epistemic Overlaps -- 3.2.7 Identifying Epistemic Partialities -- 3.2.8 From Epistemology to Ontology -- 4 Community-Based Ontology
4.1 Partially Overlapping Ontologies -- 4.1.1 The Great Ontology Confusion -- 4.1.2 Why Ontology Matters -- 4.1.3 The Rise and Fall of Convergence Metaphysics -- 4.1.4 Understanding Ontological Overlaps -- 4.1.5 Ontological Partiality in Ethnobiology -- 4.1.6 What's Left of Natural Kinds? -- 4.1.7 Radical Alterity and the Limits of Representation -- 4.2 Ontologies in Action -- 4.2.1 Ontology Beyond the Armchair -- 4.2.2 Of Insects and Fungi -- 4.2.3 Seeds from the Ancestors -- 4.2.4 Classifying Fish in Siribinha -- 4.2.5 The Challenge of Caipora -- 4.2.6 Ontological Self-Determination
4.2.7 New Directions for Political Ontology -- 5 Community-Based Politics -- 5.1 On Community Struggles -- 5.1.1 The Case for Co-production -- 5.1.2 How Academia Co-opts Co-production -- 5.1.3 Transdisciplinarity as Elite Capture -- 5.1.4 Centering on Community Agency -- 5.1.5 Local and Connected Struggles -- 5.2 Communities in Action -- 5.2.1 The Hard Problem of Scholar Activism -- 5.2.2 Community-Based Policy -- 5.2.3 Partial Overlaps and Intercultural Education -- 5.2.4 Connecting Struggles in African Agriculture -- 5.2.5 Epistemology and Ontology as Liberatory Projects
Includes bibliographical references and index.