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Lennart Olsson, LUCSUS

Lennart Olsson

Professor, Docent

Lennart Olsson, LUCSUS

The interdisciplinary decision problem : Popperian optimism and Kuhnian pessimism in forestry

Author

  • Johannes Persson
  • Henrik ThorĂ©n
  • Lennart Olsson

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

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