On the possibilities and assumptions of consilience of knowledge

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/22/S09.070" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/22/S09.070</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/22/S09.070" target="_blank" >10.5593/sgemsocial2017/22/S09.070</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

On the possibilities and assumptions of consilience of knowledge

Original language description

E.O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology, presents in his work Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge from 1998 a conjecture that postmodernism as a principal line of thought at the end of the 20th century, which is inherent in the mainstream social sciences and humanities, closes the door to the unity of knowledge - the so-called consilience. The purpose of this study was to analyse the possibilities of the consilience of knowledge in humanities and natural and social sciences in the state of postmodern crisis of an objective truth in the context of the early 21st century. The main question was whether the consilience of knowledge is really possible and useful from this point of view. For this analysis, we used the interpretative framework of a narrative approach in the perspective of wide connotations with regard to the meaning of consilience as a plausible tendency in present science also in the relativising conditions of the postmodern, or at present, it is possible to say post-factual or post-truth, times. The study presents a conclusion that even though Wilson’s observation is really significant and contributive, it disregards the entire perspective of this issue - the postmodernism interwoven with humanities and social sciences does not close the door to knowledge, on the contrary, it opens the door to its diversity. Thus there is no obstacle to the consilience of knowledge of various scientific disciplines from this point of view. This conclusion can be one of the many arguments which bring technical and social sciences and humanities closer together and can help connect the corpus of their knowledge. It justifies the possibility to create a platform where such consilience would be possible.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts: SGEM 2017 : ancience science : conference proceedings : 24-30 August, 2017, Albena Co., Bulgaria. Volume II

ISBN

978-619-7408-18-8

ISSN

2367-5659

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

529-536

Publisher name

STEF92 Technology Ltd.

Place of publication

Sofia

Event location

Albena

Event date

Aug 24, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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