Lennart Olsson
Professor, Docent
The interdisciplinary decision problem : Popperian optimism and Kuhnian pessimism in forestry
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Summary, in English
Interdisciplinary research in the fields of forestry and sustainability studies often encounters seemingly incompatible ontological assumptions deriving from natural and social sciences. The perceived incompatibilities might emerge from the epistemological and ontological claims of the theories or models directly employed in the interdisciplinary collaboration, or they might be created by other epistemological and ontological assumptions that these interdisciplinary researchers find no reason to question. In this paper we discuss the benefits and risks of two possible approaches, Popperian optimism and Kuhnian pessimism, to interdisciplinary knowledge integration where epistemological and ontological differences between the sciences involved can be expected.
Department/s
- Theoretical Philosophy
- VBE
- LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Publishing year
2018-09-13
Language
English
Publication/Series
Ecology and Society
Volume
23
Issue
3
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
The Resilience Alliance
Topic
- Philosophy
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- sustainability
- forestry
- silviculture
- ontology
- philosophy of interdisciplinarity
- interdisciplinary integration
- forestry
- interdisciplinary integration
- ontology
- philosophy of interdisciplinarity
- silviculture
- sustainability issues
Status
Published
Project
- LUCID - Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability
- Science and Proven Experience
Research group
- VBE
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1708-3087