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This course introduces doctoral students and advanced Master’s students (final year) to the fundamentals of interdisciplinary human-environment research. Collectively taught by IRI THESys researchers, the course introduces students to the range of scientific practices for building explanations and constructing knowledge in human-environment research. The themes covered include brief introductions to the history of western scientific thought, science and technology studies, ethics and politics, numerical modelling and statistical inference, remote sensing, socio-cultural anthropology and human geography, as well as inter- and transdisciplinarity. The course will be organized around the theme of climate change, to showcase different thought-styles and practices as they are articulated and enacted within a specific research domain.
The guests will decide if the seminar takes place online or in presence. |
Literatur |
Hacking, I. (1999). Chapter 1: Why ask What? In The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Fleck, L. (1979) Chapter 2: Epistemological Conclusions from the Established History of a Concept. In Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Daston, L. and Galison, P. (1992) The Image of Objectivity. In Representations (40), pp. 81-128.
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