Turning Technology-Driven Knowledge Inquiry Around: Prospects for Building a Better, Healthier, and Wiser World : How Humanity Might Best Learn the Prevention of Looming Totalitarian Catastrophes (drohende totalitarian Katastrophen)

Lal Pandit, Giridhari

Springer, Berlin（2026/06発売）

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This book proposes ecology of wisdom as a new field of study and interdisciplinary research, with Institutional Wisdom-in-Design at its core. It examines how Institutional Wisdom-in-Design can be identified, developed, and applied to transform global institutions, from schools and universities to research laboratories and international organizations. Through a methodologically structured exploration across a preface, an acknowledgement, an abstract, an introduction, fourteen chapters, and an epilogue, it introduces a unifying methodological framework to address new frontiers of institutional and interdisciplinary inquiry. Central themes in focus include an Institutional Copernican Revolution for academic and international bodies; the World-5 of Methodology of Wis-Design Improvement Science as a foundation for advancing moral progress in education, healthcare, and human rights; and Culture of Wisdom Inquiry-driven science and technology to address global challenges. The volume develops a theory of Knowledge Resources Dynamics across the sciences and humanities, focused on human well-being interests in terms of Planetary Imperatives of Inclusive Sustainable Development. By linking Institutional Wisdom-in--Design with human well-being, it articulates a framework for rethinking the role of institutions in securing brighter prospects for humanity's future. Because ecological human well-being interests are seriously undermined by the unending race for competitive war-industries capable of proliferating "nuclear weapons bazaars" globally, it envisages a world-order which can free humanity from making of new types of dangerous weapons, from investing in proliferation of nuclear weapons, and from the looming totalitarian catastrophes such as a nuclear war.

Contents

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Declarations.- Abstract.- Introduction.- Chapter1. Core-Contextual Methodological Structuralism: Rationality of Methodological Variance in the Sciences, Humanities and Beyond.- Chapter 2. Epistemological Ontology, Methodology of Science, and Rationality of Scientific Change: Lessons from Interface-Building Dynamic Turn in the Theories of Ernst Cassirer and Karl R. Popper.- Chapter 3. From the Norm of Doubt to the Norm of Reason: World-3 of Core-Contexts and Frontiers of Theory Development.- Chapter 4. Methodology of Wis-Design-Improvement Science (MWISc): Prospects of a Moral Era in Education, Healthcare and Human Rights.- Chapter 5. Knowledge Environments for Knowledge Resources Dynamics.- Chapter 6. Rationality of Methodological Variance: Wisdom Inquiry, Education, and Technology?.- Chapter 7. How Vulnerable is Traditional Wisdom of Culture: Prolegomenon to a Culture of Wisdom Inquiry Driven World.- Chapter 8. Scenario-Building Problem-Solving Rationality of Wisdom Inquiry.- Chapter 9. Breaches in the Reach of Empowerment: When can we put a Final End to Collective Crimes Against Humanity?.- Chapter 10. Living Our Lives within the Ever-Widening Negative Externalities: Rethinking Development, Culture, and Ecology.- Chapter 11 Ecological Imperative of Environmental Nesting Type 2.- Chapter 12. Methodology of Wis-Design Improvement Science (MWDISc): Towards an Institutional Copernican Revolution.- Chapter 13. Models of Development within an Ecologically Challenged Finite Earth: Trade- Offs between Prosperity and Freedom.- Chapter 14. Ecological Environmental Realism: Planetary Imperatives of Inclusive Sustainable Development.- Epilogue: Wisdom without the Wise Subject: From the Methodology of Wis-Design Improvement Science to Institutional Copernican Revolution.