A Theory of Uncertainty
Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk Research
- 270 pages
- English
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A Theory of Uncertainty
Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk Research
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Entering Terra Incognita: A Metaphysical Approach
- 2 Ontological Uncertainty: World and Social Being in Disarray
- 3 Epistemological Uncertainty: What We Know and Don’t Know about Non-Knowing
- 4 Linguistic-Communicative Uncertainty: The Twilight Zone of Language, Communication, and Discourse
- 5 Teleological Uncertainty: Journey into an Uncertain Future
- 6 Epilogue: Societal Domestication of Uncertainty
- Bibliography
- Index