The interdisciplinary decision problem : Popperian optimism and Kuhnian pessimism in forestry
Persson, Johannes LU
; Thorén, Henrik
LU
and Olsson, Lennart
LU
(2018)
In Ecology and Society
23(3).
- Abstract
- 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... (More)
- 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. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- 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... (More)
- 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. (Less)
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- Persson, Johannes
LU
; Thorén, Henrik
LU
and Olsson, Lennart
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-09-13
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- sustainability, forestry, silviculture, ontology, philosophy of interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary integration, forestry, interdisciplinary integration, ontology, philosophy of interdisciplinarity, silviculture, sustainability issues
- in
- Ecology and Society
- volume
- 23
- issue
- 3
- article number
- 40
- pages
- 9 pages
- publisher
- The Resilience Alliance
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85056722430
- ISSN
- 1708-3087
- DOI
- 10.5751/ES-10401-230340
- project
- LUCID - Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability
- Science and Proven Experience
- language
- English
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- yes
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- b0630fff-b3a7-432c-a099-a97dc9011d55
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