Rolf Hvidtfeldt

Menneskebilleder er overordnede teorier om menneskets natur, om hvordan mennesker interagerer med hinanden og med deres omgivelser, og om, hvordan de handler i samfundsfællesskabet. Menneskebillederne er strukturerende for fundamentale diskurser, der ligger bag megen politisk debat og samfundsudvikling. Denne bog præsenterer otte menneskebilleder, der kan anvendes som redskaber til at uddrage teksters syn på mennesket. Ofte vil teksterne trække på flere menneskebilleder, og denne bog rummer derfor et analyseredskab, der kan fange denne kompleksitet. Bogen rummer desuden en lang række cases, der demonstrerer, hvordan menneskebillederne konkret kan anvendes som analysereskab. Menneskebilleder henvender sig til studerende på humanistiske universitetsuddannelser og professionshøjskoler og tilbyder sig som en støtte til deres tekstanalyser gennem studiet.

This book presents a novel approach to the analysis of interdisciplinary science based on the contemporary philosophical literature on scientific representation. The basic motivation for developing this approach is that epistemic issues are insufficiently dealt with in the existing literature on interdisciplinarity. This means that when interdisciplinary science is praised (as it often is), it is far from clear to what extent this praise is merited – at least if one cares about various more or less standardised measures of scientific quality. To develop a more adequate way of capturing what is going on in interdisciplinary science, the author draws inspiration from the rich philosophical literature on modelling, idealisation, perspectivism, and scientific pluralism. The discussion hereof reveals a number of critical pitfalls related to transferring mathematical and conceptual tools between scientific contexts, which should be relevant and interesting for anyone actively engaged in funding, evaluating, or carrying out interdisciplinary science.

This book presents a novel approach to the analysis of interdisciplinary science based on the contemporary philosophical literature on scientific representation. The basic motivation for developing this approach is that epistemic issues are insufficiently dealt with in the existing literature on interdisciplinarity. This means that when interdisciplinary science is praised (as it often is), it is far from clear to what extent this praise is merited – at least if one cares about various more or less standardised measures of scientific quality. To develop a more adequate way of capturing what is going on in interdisciplinary science, the author draws inspiration from the rich philosophical literature on modelling, idealisation, perspectivism, and scientific pluralism. The discussion hereof reveals a number of critical pitfalls related to transferring mathematical and conceptual tools between scientific contexts, which should be relevant and interesting for anyone actively engaged in funding, evaluating, or carrying out interdisciplinary science.