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How climate models came to gain and exercise epistemic authority has been a key concern of recent climate change historiography. Using newly released archival materials and recently conducted interviews with key actors, we reconstruct negotiations between UK climate scientists and policymakers which led to the opening of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in 1990. We historicize earlier arguments about the unique institutional culture of the Hadley Centre, and link this culture to broader characteristics of UK regulatory practice and environmental politics. A product of a particular time and place, the Hadley Centre was shaped not just by scientific ambition, but by a Conservative governmental preference for 'sound science' and high evidential standards in environmental policymaking. Civil servants sought a prediction programme which would appeal to such sensibilities, with transient and regional climate simulation techniques seemingly offering both scientific prestige and persuasive power. Beyond the national level, we also offer new insights into the early role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an evolving international political context in the shaping of scientific practices and institutions.

How climate models came to gain and exercise epistemic authority has been a key concern of recent climate change historiography. Using newly released archival materials and recently conducted interviews with key actors, we reconstruct negotiations between UK climate scientists and policymakers which led to the opening of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in 1990. We historicize earlier arguments about the unique institutional culture of the Hadley Centre, and link this culture to broader characteristics of UK regulatory practice and environmental politics. A product of a particular time and place, the Hadley Centre was shaped not just by scientific ambition, but by a Conservative governmental preference for 'sound science' and high evidential standards in environmental policymaking. Civil servants sought a prediction programme which would appeal to such sensibilities, with transient and regional climate simulation techniques seemingly offering both scientific prestige and persuasive power. Beyond the national level, we also offer new insights into the early role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an evolving international political context in the shaping of scientific practices and institutions.

Connecting Virtues examines the significant advances within the fast-growing field of virtue theory and shows how research has contributed to the current debates in moral philosophy, epistemology, and political philosophy.-Includes groundbreaking chapters offering cutting-edge research on the topic of the virtues -Provides insights into the application of the topic of virtue, such as the role of intellectual virtues, virtuous dispositions, and the value of some neglected virtues for political philosophy -Examines the relevance of the virtues in the current debates in social epistemology, the epistemology of education, and civic education -Features work from world-leading and internationally recognized philosophers working on the virtues today.

"Boundary Organizations: Intermediaries in Science–Policy Interactions" published on by Oxford University Press.

Foreword -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: The Problem: Climate Change, Politics and the Media -- Scale: Width, Depth and Time -- Complexity: Knowledge, Civic Epistemology, Institutions, Inequality -- Political Imagination: Planning, Challenging, Deliberating -- Climate Change, Media and Journalism -- Global Geopolitical Reach -- IPCC AR5 and the Dynamics of Global Media Events -- Mainstream Print Bias and the Notion of the "Public" -- The Space of Interpretation: Attention and Access

1.The playful citizen: an introduction /René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries --Part I. Ludo-literacies.Introduction to part I /René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries --2.Engagement in play, engagement in politics: playing political video games /Joyce Neys and Jeroen Jansz --3.Analytical game design: game-making as a cultural technique in a gamified society /Stefan Werning --4.Re-thinking the social documentary /William Uricchio --5.Collapsus, or how to make players become ecological citizens /Joost Raessens --6.The broken toy tactics: clockwork worlds and activist games /Anne-Marie Schleiner --7.Video games and the engaged citizen: on the ambiguity of digital play /Ingrid Hoofd --Part II. Ludo-epistemologies.Introduction to part II /René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries --8.Public laboratory: play and civic engagement /Jessica Breen, Shannon Dosemagen, Don Blair, and Liz Barry --9.Sensing the air and experimenting with environmental citizenship /Jennifer Gabrys --10.Biohacking: playing with technology /Stephanie de Smale --11.Ludo-epistemology: playing with the rules in citizen science games /René Glas and Sybille Lammes --12.The playful scientist: stimulating playful communities for science practice /Ben Schouten, Erik van der Spek, Daniël Harmsen, and Ellis Bartholomeus --13.Laborious playgrounds: citizen science games as new modes of work/play in the digital age /Sonia Fizek and Anne Dippel --Part III. Ludo-politics.Introduction to part III /René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries --14.On participatory politics as a game changer and the politics of participation /Mercedes Bunz --15.Playing with politics: memory, orientation, and tactility /Sam Hind --16.Meaningful inefficiencies: resisting the logic of technological efficiency in the design of civic systems /Eric Gordon and Stephen Walter --17.Permanent revolution: occupying democracy /Douglas Rushkoff --18.The playful city: citizens making the smart city /Michiel de Lange --19.Dissent at a distance /The Janissary Collective (Mark Deuze and Lindsay Ems) --20.Playing with power: casual politicking as a new frame for political analysis /Alex Gekker.

Environmental issues in the twenty-first century have had diverse positions especially in the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of the factors that allow their approach, understanding and explaining the socio-natural reality on a global and local level, becoming an indispensable factor for the construction of the environmental epistemology in this postmodern time. Due to this fact , in this essay we focus some ideas about the historical foundations that incorporate the theme of globalization, modernity, environmental soundness of Leff and sustainable development of the Brundtland report as an important international section to a variety of anthropogenic actions generated during the twentieth century that have contributed to alter the balance in the ecosystem dynamics. Besides, to recognize some problems Boff sets in "The Earth Charter" related to the overexploitation of resources, ecology, mercantilist thought, economist and predatory capitalist model that has not only affected the natural system but also the social system. For that reason it is that these reflections are held to have a holistic view between human-nature and society be implications for the dynamics of this new century based on ethical commitment with civic responsibility, participation and taking decisions in the field of politics, culture, economy, under the schemes of rationality that points towards the sustainability of the planet in all its dimensions.Finally with this text we recognize the role of education for building the environmental epistemology, the study of complex thought and the stage on which are new challenges to achieve the transformation of a civilizing model committed to nature, the earth planet "our common home" and human development. ; La temática ambiental en el siglo XXI ha tenido diversidad de posturas sobre todo por la interdisciplinariedad y multidisciplinariedad de los factores que permiten su abordaje, comprensión y explicación sobre la realidad socionatural a escala global y local, convirtiéndose en un ...

Knowledge and the early modern city : an introduction / Bert De Munck & Antonella Romano -- The theatrum as an urban site of knowledge in the Low Countries, c. 1560-1620 / Anne-Laure Van Bruaene -- Artisanal "histories" in early modern Nuremberg / Hannah Murphy -- Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia : archaeologising Parisian society in eighteenth-century civic epistemology / Stéphane Van Damme -- Stench and the city : urban odours and technological innovation in early modern Leiden and Batavia / Marius Buning -- Cities, long-distance corporations and open air sciences : Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the early modern period / Karel Davids -- Technology transfer, ship design and urban policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen / Daniel Margócsy -- André de Avelar and the city of Coimbra : spaces of knowledge and belief during the early modern Iberian Union / Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi -- Roman urbans epistemologies : global space and universal time in the rebuilding of a sixteenth-century city / Elisa Andretta & Antonella Romano -- The library, the city, the empire : de-provincialising Vienna in the early seventeenth century / Paola Molino.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Forensic Facts, the Guts of Rights -- Part I. Evidence and Epistemology -- Chapter 1. The Value(s) of Methods: Method Selection in German Forensic Toxicology in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2. The Imperial Serologist and Punitive Self-Harm: Bloodstains and Legal Pluralism in British India -- Chapter 3. Handwriting Analysis as a Dynamic Artisanal Science: The Hardless Detective Dynasty and the Forensic Cultures of the British Raj -- Chapter 4. Spatters and Lies: Contrasting Forensic Cultures in the Trials of Sam Sheppard, 1954-66 -- Part II. Practices of Power and Policing -- Chapter 5. Death and Empire: Medicolegal Investigations and Practice across the British Empire -- Chapter 6. Fingerprints and the Politics of Scientific Policing in Early Twentieth-Century Spain -- Chapter 7. From Bedouin Trackers to Doberman Pinschers: The Rise of Dog Tracking as Forensic Evidence in Palestine -- Chapter 8. "DNA Evidence Cannot Lie": Forensic Science, Truth Regimes, and Civic Epistemology in Thai History -- Part III. Training and Transmitting -- Chapter 9. Cleaning Out the Mortuary and the Medicolegal Text: Ambriose Tardieu's Modernizing Enterprise -- Chapter 10. The Strange Science: Tracking and Detection in the Late Nineteenth-Century Punjab -- Chapter 11. Forensic Knowledge and Forensic Networks in Britain's Empire: The Case of Sydney Smith -- Afterword: A Tale of Two Cities? Locating the History of Forensic Science and Medicine in Contemporary Forensic Reform Discourse -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

"What is 'legal' about bioethics? What are the ideas and artefacts that bioethics encompasses, and how are they related to law? What is the role of law in bioethics? In this work, Calvin Ho attempts to address these questions in the context of the governance of human pluripotent stem cell research. In essence, he argues that the hybridization of law, through processes, devices and techniques of juridification, has helped to constitute bioethics as a public sphere and an emergent civic epistemology. Drawing on his multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and on Actor-Network-Theory, Ho explains how the law has, through bioethics, contributed to the scientific and public understanding of human pluripotent stem cell research and its artefacts, particularly the embryo and human-animal combinations. Although the focus of his work is on bioethical developments in Singapore over a period of more than 15 years, parallel developments in key jurisdictions (especially the United States of America and the United Kingdom) and in international science policy are also evaluated. It is through appreciating how it has progressed that bioethics will be better able to engage with future challenges presented by advances in human embryo research and gene editing techniques, among others."--Publisher's website

The exponential increase on the internet of indecent images of children (IIOC) has been followed by a transformation within criminal justice. The scale, nature and rapid technological evolution of such crimes—often of distant initial geographical origin—requires collaborative justice and harm reduction arrangements with internet companies and NGOs. The diminished reach (declining criminal justice interventions) and power (even in identifying crimes for intervention) of state authority with the current collaborative model, however, has resulted in inadequate social regulation and policing in response to IIOC crimes on the surface web. There is a considerable risk that the Online Harms White Paper proposals to establish overarching government authority to generally reduce harmful conduct will not fully resolve problems that go much wider than the technological, commercial and consumer protection on the surface web issues emphasised in that document. Only political choices about funding and fundamental rights compliant legislation can (a) prevent the hollowing out of criminal justice capacity and capabilities to deal with IIOC offenders and (b) ensure an essential compatibility and consistency in police operational ability—including the access sought to anonymised communication data via an encryption key—and legal principles when dealing with IIOC crimes across all levels of the internet, including 'the dark web'. These issues are examined as a case study in civic epistemology about the influence of neoliberalism in technologically focused policy making.

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there. Findings suggest that envisioned future systems will need to be much more collaborative, open, diverse, egalitarian, and able to work with values and systemic issues. They will also need to go beyond producing knowledge about our world to generating wisdom about how to act within it. To get to envisioned systems we will need to rapidly scale methodological innovations, connect innovators, and creatively accelerate learning about working with intractable challenges. We will also need to create new funding schemes, a global knowledge commons, and challenge deeply held assumptions. To genuinely be a creative force in supporting longevity of human and non-human life on our planet, the shift in knowledge systems will probably need to be at the scale of the enlightenment and speed of the scientific and technological revolution accompanying the second World War. This will require bold and strategic action from governments, scientists, civic society and sustained transformational intent.

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there. Findings suggest that envisioned future systems will need to be much more collaborative, open, diverse, egalitarian, and able to work with values and systemic issues. They will also need to go beyond producing knowledge about our world to generating wisdom about how to act within it. To get to envisioned systems we will need to rapidly scale methodological innovations, connect innovators, and creatively accelerate learning about working with intractable challenges. We will also need to create new funding schemes, a global knowledge commons, and challenge deeply held assumptions. To genuinely be a creative force in supporting longevity of human and non-human life on our planet, the shift in knowledge systems will probably need to be at the scale of the enlightenment and speed of the scientific and technological revolution accompanying the second World War. This will require bold and strategic action from governments, scientists, civic society and sustained transformational intent. ; publishedVersion

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there. Findings suggest that envisioned future systems will need to be much more collaborative, open, diverse, egalitarian, and able to work with values and systemic issues. They will also need to go beyond producing knowledge about our world to generating wisdom about how to act within it. To get to envisioned systems we will need to rapidly scale methodological innovations, connect innovators, and creatively accelerate learning about working with intractable challenges. We will also need to create new funding schemes, a global knowledge commons, and challenge deeply held assumptions. To genuinely be a creative force in supporting longevity of human and non-human life on our planet, the shift in knowledge systems will probably need to be at the scale of the enlightenment and speed of the scientific and technological revolution accompanying the second World War. This will require bold and strategic action from governments, scientists, civic society and sustained transformational intent. ; ISSN:2214-6296

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there. Findings suggest that envisioned future systems will need to be much more collaborative, open, diverse, egalitarian, and able to work with values and systemic issues. They will also need to go beyond producing knowledge about our world to generating wisdom about how to act within it. To get to envisioned systems we will need to rapidly scale methodological innovations, connect innovators, and creatively accelerate learning about working with intractable challenges. We will also need to create new funding schemes, a global knowledge commons, and challenge deeply held assumptions. To genuinely be a creative force in supporting longevity of human and non-human life on our planet, the shift in knowledge systems will probably need to be at the scale of the enlightenment and speed of the scientific and technological revolution accompanying the second World War. This will require bold and strategic action from governments, scientists, civic society and sustained transformational intent. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion