Martina Plümacher

Günter Abel

How do people and institutions manage to bring their different perspectives into an effective and productive interplay? How can we overcome obstacles for the creative potentials of distributed perspectives? Traditionally, the perspectives of people and institutions are considered to be fixed and isolated points of view. In such a picture, the perspectives seem determined in advance by positions and persons seem trapped within their perspectival horizons. In contrast, the new approach of this volume’s contributions focuses on the simple but fundamental fact that people (in their perceiving, speaking, thinking, and acting) always already refer to fellow human beings and coordinate their own perspectives with those of other persons and institutions. The contributions of the present volume concentrate on the structures, mechanisms, and dynamics of the interplays of different perspectives of interacting, communicating, and cooperating persons and institutions. The volume focuses on how the creative potentials as well as the organizational effectiveness of distributed perspectives can be set free.

The Power of Distributed Perspectives

Gegenwartsphilosophie jenseits von Essentialismus und Relativismus

Interpretationswelten

Kreativität ist zu einem Schlüsselbegriff innerhalb der Wissenschaften, der Forschung, der Wirtschaft und der Medien aufgestiegen. Sie ist ein zentrales Thema der öffentlichen Diskussion und schwingt stets mit, wenn von Innovation, Fortschritt, Zukunft der Wissensgesellschaft, Genforschung, Bioethik, virtuellen Welten und künstlicher Intelligenz die Rede ist. Zugleich spielt Kreativität eine grundlegende Rolle sowohl in den sozialen, wissenschaftlichen und technischen Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen des Menschen, wie auch in unserem alltäglichen Wahrnehmen, Sprechen, Denken und Handeln. Die Autoren dieses Bandes nehmen sich des Themas gezielt an, reflektieren die Formen, Praktiken und Dynamiken von Kreativität sowie deren Bedingungen und Voraussetzungen und heben die Logik von Kreativitätsprozessen ins Blickfeld.

XX.Deutscher Kongreß für Philosophie

Kreativität. Tagungsband

James Conant

This volume contains contributions to the "systematic study of knowledge." They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the first volume are the following: concepts and forms of knowledge, epistemic perspectivism, knowledge and world-views, perceptual knowledge, scientific knowledge, models in science, distributed and integrated knowledge, interaction of forms of knowledge, and relation between forms of knowledge and forms of representation.

Rethinking Epistemology

Marco Brusotti

Helmut Heit

Nietzsche’s philosophical analysis of our culture has had more consequences than most others. In these writings Nietzsche focused his attention particularly on the validity and effect of scientific endeavour. Science in its classical sense – encompassing natural and social sciences, philosophy and the arts – is seen as a cultural discipline central to modern human life, but one that is problematic and has far-reaching consequences. This volume is the first to bring together Nietzsche scholars and philosophers of science from all over the world to focus upon the problem of science.

Günter Abel

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