Abstract
Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman. 2008. Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society 13(2): 46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02671-130246
Highlights
“There is a story—which if it is not true should be—that a certain old lady derived a great spiritual comfort from believing that the word “Mesopotamia” had a profoundly pious significance
Through resilience theory's adaptive cycle, we demonstrate how a focus on epistemological pluralism can facilitate the reorganization of interdisciplinary research and avoid the build-up of significant, but insufficiently integrative, disciplinary-dominated research
The authors of this paper, representing the disciplines of anthropology, ecology, environmental philosophy, geography, mathematics, and policy science, share an interest in crossing these divides to invigorate the creation of knowledge for the study and management of sustainable SESs.† We suggest that bridging the gaps between disciplinary perspectives demands more active engagement with the norms and processes of science in the development of interdisciplinary research
Summary
“There is a story—which if it is not true should be—that a certain old lady derived a great spiritual comfort from believing that the word “Mesopotamia” had a profoundly pious significance. These metaphors are meant to illustrate the spectrum of the forms of knowledge and the ways in which they are acquired and validated. We welcome dialogue to create a more complete vision of the knowledges present in various research projects These metaphors describe the ways in which a given epistemic community (Lee 1993) may acquire knowledge and how it is valued and validated. When looked at together, it is clear that each provides a different perspective, complementing each other and resulting in a more complete description of knowledge than any of the three could alone Each of these metaphors, as well as the communities they represent, share a set of values that influence and enable the production of knowledge and help establish a common object of inquiry. Whereas any given discipline is dynamic and composed of different theoretical and methodological approaches, it will tend to share a language, a set of tools, and
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