Seeding Global Collaboration - Softcover

McShane, Philip; Henman, Robert; Quinn, Terrance; Mundine, Aaron; Anderson, Bruce; McNelis, Sean; Zanardi, William; Shute, Michael; George, Michael; Allerton, Meghan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1988457009 ISBN 13: 9781988457000

Publisher: Axial Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

A collection of essays written for “Functional Collaboration in the Academy,” a conference held at the University of British Columbia, in July, 2014. The essays attempt to explore and advance Bernard Lonergan’s central achievement, a revolutionary method for collaborative inquiry relevant to both the natural sciences and the human sciences. Each essay is an exercise focusing on a specific collaborative task in a particular area of interest. These range from research in neuroscience to interpreting space and time, from forging new housing policies and communicating macroeconomic dynamics to performing distinct collaborative tasks as part of a unified process of caring for ecosystems. The essays attempt to illustrate the power of the method. But they also seek to seed a new ethos of efficient collaboration and effective meaning. Functional collaboration amounts to a novum organon for scientific and academic inquiry, one potentially capable of meeting the daunting problems and global challenges of our time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Axial Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1988457009
• ISBN 13: 9781988457000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279