1st Edition
The Structural Change of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences
Introduction: On the future of social sciences and humanities – a pragmatic perspective Ronald J. Pohoryles and Andrew Sors
1. Back to the future? From pragmatic approaches in the social sciences to the development of the patchwork theory Ronald J. Pohoryles
2. Social scientists as technicians, advisors and meaning producers Nico Stehr and Alexander Ruser
3. Society as an ethical system John Crowley
4. Travelling concepts and crossing paths: a conceptual history of identity Liana Giorgi
5. Knowledge, International Relations and the structure–agency debate: towards the concept of "epistemic selectivities" Alice B.M. Vadrot
6. The creative economy: invention of a global orthodoxy Philip Schlesinger
7. In search of experiential knowledge Stuart Blume
8. Seeing the wood for the trees: Social Science 3.0 and the role of visual thinking Joe Ravetz and Amanda Ravetz
9. Maps of the uncertain: a new approach to communicate scientific ignorance Christoph Henseler and Hans-Liudger Dienel
Obituary: A thank you note and a farewell to our colleagues to whom we owe our success Ronald J. Pohoryles
Biography
Ronald Pohoryles is Research Director of the ICCR and President of the European Association of the Advancement of the Social Sciences. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. He is also Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he teaches classical liberal scholars.
Andrew Sors is Head of Science and Technology for the European Commission’s Delegation to India. He was previously Head of Social Sciences and Humanities Research at the European Commission. He has been a visiting professor at Manchester University, UK, and spent three years as Rector of the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary.
