UID:
almafu_9960119156302883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 378 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781108329750
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1108329756
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9781108331197
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110833119X
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9781108325615
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1108325610
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Content:
Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge survive preferentially, communities of practice serve as their vehicle, and social orders evolve. As an evolutionary theory of world ordering, which does not borrow from the natural sciences, it explains why certain configurations of practices organize and govern social orders epistemically and normatively, and why and how these configurations evolve from one social order to another. Suggesting a multiple and overlapping international social orders' approach, the book uses three running cases of contested orders - Europe's contemporary social order, the cyberspace order, and the corporate order - to illustrate the theory. Based on the concepts of common humanity and epistemological security, the author also submits a normative theory of better practices and of bounded progress.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Feb 2019).
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Machine generated contents note: Prologue. The Crux of the Matter; Part I. Social Constructivism as Cognitive Evolution; 1. Samurai Crabs and International Social Orders; 2. Evolutionary Ontology: From Being to Becoming; 3. Evolutionary Epistemology; 4. Practices, Background Knowledge, Communities of Practice, Social Orders; Part II. Cognitive Evolution Theory and International Social Orders; 5. International Social Orders; 6. Cognitive Evolution Theory: Social Mechanisms and Processes; 7. Agential Social Mechanisms; 8. Creative Variation; 9. Selective Retention; 10. Better Practices and Bounded Progress ; Epilogue: World Ordering.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108412674
Additional Edition:
ISBN 110841267X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108419956
Additional Edition:
ISBN 110841995X
Language:
English
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