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Beschreibung
Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.

Andreas Klinke develops a new, general theory of uncertainty that provides a taxonomy of categories which are deduced from a critical inventory in philosophy, social and natural sciences, and risk research. Comprising six parts, the philosophical grounding of uncertainty sets the stage for the following philosophical and social scientific accounts and explanation of four distinctive guises of uncertainty that form a taxonomic notion and rationale: ontological, epistemological, linguistic-communicative, and teleological uncertainty. The theoretical-conceptual rumination provides a complex, differentiated view of the anatomy of uncertainty and an understanding that can be used in further theoretical and empirical research, as well as socio-political practice. The latter is delineated in the final part addressing the societal domestication of uncertainty.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in philosophy, social and natural sciences, risk research, as well as inter- and transdisciplinary science fields.

Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.

Andreas Klinke develops a new, general theory of uncertainty that provides a taxonomy of categories which are deduced from a critical inventory in philosophy, social and natural sciences, and risk research. Comprising six parts, the philosophical grounding of uncertainty sets the stage for the following philosophical and social scientific accounts and explanation of four distinctive guises of uncertainty that form a taxonomic notion and rationale: ontological, epistemological, linguistic-communicative, and teleological uncertainty. The theoretical-conceptual rumination provides a complex, differentiated view of the anatomy of uncertainty and an understanding that can be used in further theoretical and empirical research, as well as socio-political practice. The latter is delineated in the final part addressing the societal domestication of uncertainty.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in philosophy, social and natural sciences, risk research, as well as inter- and transdisciplinary science fields.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction

Chapter 1

Entering Terra Incognita - A Metaphysical Approach

1.1 Natural and Social Guises of Uncertainty

1.2 Immanence and Genericity

1.3 The Fundamental Premise of a Theory of Uncertainty

1.3.1 At the Intersection of Philosophical and Social Science Disciplines

1.3.2 Determinism versus Nondeterminism

1.3.3 The Interpretive Structure and Dependence of Uncertainty

Chapter 2

Ontological Uncertainty - World and Social Being in Disarray

2.1 Constitutive and Differential Potential

2.2 Holding Sway over Social Being

2.3 Freedom and Self-Determination

2.4 Cosmopolitan Ontology

Excursus I

Homo Homini Lupus Est - War, Terrorism, and Collective Violence

Chapter 3

Epistemological Uncertainty - What We Know and Don't Know about Non-Knowing

3.1 Evidentiality and Reliability

3.2 Knowable and Unknowable

3.3 Techno-Scientific Paradigm of Uncertainty

3.4 Discursive Epistemology

3.4.1 Social Epistemology and Non-Knowing

3.4.2 Epistemology of Epistemological Uncertainty

3.5 Collective Agents of Knowledge and Epistemic Communities

3.5.1 The Becoming Common of Distributed Cognitive Labor

3.5.2 Relativism, Relative Truth, and Disagreement

3.5.3 Influence of Power

Excursus II

The Orwellian "Doublethink" of Post-Facticity

Chapter 4

Linguistic-Communicative Uncertainty - The Twilight Zone of Language, Communication, and Discourse

4.1 Linguistic Turns: Becoming Aware of Linguistic-Communicative Uncertainty

4.2 Obscurity in Semantics: Meaning, Sense, and Reference

4.2.1 Semantic Analysis

4.2.2 Functional Validity Claims (in Semantics)

4.3 Confusion through Linguistic Interpretation and Hermeneutical Conundrums

4.4 Imponderabilia of Discourse and Communicative Rationality

4.5 Anomalies of Linguistic-Communicative Uncertainty Revisited

4.5.1 Lexical Vagueness and Ambiguity of Terms and Phrases

4.5.2 Illogical Syntax and Compositionality

4.5.3 Unclear and Obscure Referencing

4.5.4 Delusive Contextualization

4.5.5 Inadequate Linguistic Attitude and Intentionality

4.5.6 Equivocal Interpretation

4.5.7 Discursive Imponderability

Excursus III

Speaking out of Turn - The Viral Linguistic Power of Social Media

Chapter 5

Teleological Uncertainty - Journey into an Uncertain Future

5.1 World in Process and Transition

5.1.1 Uncertainty in Process

5.1.2 The Coming About of Teleological Uncertainty

5.2 Art and Science of Prescience

5.2.1 Systematic Approaches to the Future

5.2.2 A Vein of Modalism, Abstractionism, and Possibilism

5.3 Logic of Teleological Uncertainty in Forward-Looking Constructions

5.3.1 Conjecturing Teleological Uncertainty and Contingent Future

5.3.2 Reasoning, Inference, and Plausibility

5.3.3 Multifarious Logic of Teleological Uncertainty

5.3.4 The Role of Intuition

5.3.5 Uncertain Encounters with Bifurcations, Tipping Points, and Points of No Return

Excursus IV

Ides of March - Rare Contretemps, Upheavals, and Radical Transformations

Chapter 6

Epilogue - Societal Domestication of Uncertainty

6.1 Philosophication and Scientification of Uncertainty

6.2 Rational Politicization of Uncertainty

6.3 Postnormal Democratization of Uncertainty

6.3.1 Mediatory Public Sphere

6.3.2 Epistemic Authority

6.3.3 Associational Authority

6.3.4 General Public Authority

6.3.5 Résumé

Bibliography

Index

Details
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781032738888
ISBN-10: 103273888X
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Klinke, Andreas
Hersteller: Routledge
Taylor & Francis
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 18 x 156 x 234 mm
Von/Mit: Andreas Klinke
Gewicht: 0,518 kg
Artikel-ID: 128733448

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