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No Such Thing as Containment? Gene Drives for Conservation and the (Im)possibility of an IslandPhilosophy and Technology 37 (3): 1-29. 2024.This article explores the use of islands as tools of geographical and intellectual containment - or what we call “islanding” - in the scientific and policy literature about gene drive technologies in conservation. In the first part of the article, we explore the narrative of contained gene drive use on islands and discuss how it juggles notions of localness and localization of gene drives and their (test) releases. We question the possibility and narrative of containing the spread of gene drives…Read more
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17Southern Ontologies: Reorienting Agendas in Social OntologyJournal of Social Ontology 10 (2): 51-79. 2024.This article addresses ontological negotiations in the Global South through three case studies of community-based research in Brazil and Ghana. We argue that ontological perspectives of Indigenous people and local communities require an ontological pluralism that recognizes both the plurality of representational tools and of ways of being in the world. Locating these two readings of ontological pluralism in the politics of the Global South, the article highlights a wider dynamic from ontological…Read more
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14The Emergence of a Re-humanizing Pedagogy for African Agrarian PhilosophyIn Mbih Jerome Tosam & Erasmus Masitera (eds.), African Agrarian Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 263-285. 2023.Until today, an externally imposed epistemological paradigm is dominant in most educational curricula at universities in Africa. Despite ongoing Eurocentrism and Western hegemony in mainstream agricultural trainings in Africa, Indigenous knowledge on agriculture still exists: it has been preserved for generations by farmers and wise elders in rural communities who often are knowledge authorities on African agrarian Indigenous knowledge, values and practices. An imposed epistemological paradigm o…Read more
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239Confrontation or Dialogue? Productive Tensions between Decolonial and Intercultural ScholarshipErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.For several decades, intercultural philosophers have produced an extensive body of scholarly work aimed at mutual intercultural understanding. They have focused on the ideal of intercultural dialogue that is supported by dialogue principles and virtuous attitudes. However, this ideal is challenged by decolonial scholarship as neglecting power inequalities. Decolonial scholars have emphasized the differences between cultures and worldviews, shifting the focus to colonial history and radical alter…Read more
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1440Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous ExpertisePhilosophy of Science 1. 2023.Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This paper reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subaltern forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of science and outline a constructive alternative of tra…Read more
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207Pluralist Ethnobiology: Between Philosophical Reflection and Transdisciplinary ActionJournal of Ethnobiology 1 1-7. 2023.
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601Southern Ontologies. Reorienting Agendas in Social OntologyJournal of Social Ontology (2): 51-79. 2023.This article addresses ontological negotiations in the Global South through three case studies of community-based research in Brazil and Ghana. We argue that ontological perspectives of Indigenous and other subjugated communities require an ontological pluralism that recognizes the plurality of both representational tools and ways of being in the world. Locating these two readings of ontological pluralism in the politics of the Global South, the article highlights a wider dynamic from ontologica…Read more
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27Back by popular demand, ontology: Productive tensions between anthropological and philosophical approaches to ontologySynthese 202 (2): 1-22. 2023.In this paper we analyze relations between _ontology_ in anthropology and philosophy beyond simple homonymy or synonymy and show how this diagnosis allows for new interdisciplinary links and insights, while minimizing the risk of cross-disciplinary equivocation. We introduce the ontological turn in anthropology as an intellectual project rooted in the critique of dualism of culture and nature and propose a classification of the literature we reviewed into first-order claims about the world and s…Read more
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46In this paper we analyze relations between ontology in anthropology and philosophy beyond simple homonymy or synonymy and show how this diagnosis allows for new interdisciplinary links and insights, while minimizing the risk of cross-disciplinary equivocation. We introduce the ontological turn in anthropology as an intellectual project rooted in the critique of dualism of culture and nature and propose a classification of the literature we reviewed into first-order claims about the world and sec…Read more
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15Correction: Gene Drives as Interventions into Nature: the Coproduction of Ontology and Morality in the Gene Drive DebateNanoEthics 17 (2): 1-1. 2023.Gene drives are potentially ontologically and morally disruptive technologies. The potential to shape evolutionary processes and to eradicate (e.g. malaria-transmitting or invasive) populations raises ontological questions about evolution, nature, and wilderness. The transformative promises and perils of gene drives also raise pressing ethical and political concerns. The aim of this article is to arrive at a better understanding of the gene drive debate by analysing how ontological and moral ass…Read more
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59Gene Drives as Interventions into Nature: the Coproduction of Ontology and Morality in the Gene Drive DebateNanoEthics 17 (1): 1-25. 2023.Gene drives are potentially ontologically and morally disruptive technologies. The potential to shape evolutionary processes and to eradicate (e.g. malaria-transmitting or invasive) populations raises ontological questions about evolution, nature, and wilderness. The transformative promises and perils of gene drives also raise pressing ethical and political concerns. The aim of this article is to arrive at a better understanding of the gene drive debate by analysing how ontological and moral ass…Read more
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40From naturalness to materiality: reimagining philosophy of scientific classificationEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 13 (1): 1-23. 2023.The notion of natural kinds has been widely criticized in philosophy of science but also appears indispensable for philosophical engagement with classificatory practices. Rather than addressing this tension through a new definition of “natural kind”, this article suggests materiality as a substitute for naturalness in philosophical debates about scientific classification. It is argued that a theory of material kinds provides an alternative and more inclusive entry point for analyzing classificat…Read more
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6From Naturalness to Materiality: Reimagining Philosophy of Scientific Classification PreprintEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science (1): 8. 2023.The notion of natural kinds has been widely criticized in philosophy of science but also appears indispensable for philosophical engagement with classificatory practices. Rather than addressing this tension through a new definition of “natural kind”, this article suggests materiality as a substitute for naturalness in philosophical debates about scientific classification. It is argued that a theory of material kinds provides an alternative and more inclusive entry point for analyzing classificat…Read more
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1260Science and Justice: Beyond the New Orthodoxy of Value-Laden ScienceIn Anjan Chakravartty (ed.), Science and Humanism, . forthcoming.
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5Das materielle Modell: Objektgeschichten aus der wissenschaftlichen Praxis (edited book)Wilhelm Fink. 2014.
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A Reconsideration of African Spirituality in Agricultural Development Projects: Traditional Ecological Knowledge from Dagara Elders in Koro, GhanaIn Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela Roothaan (eds.), Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development, Lexington Books. 2023.
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Philosophy or philosophies? Epistemology or epistemologies?In Inkeri Koskinen, David Ludwig, Zinhle Mncube, Luana Poliseli & Luis Reyes-Galindo (eds.), Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, Routledge. 2021.
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34Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual frameworkAgriculture and Human Values 40 (1): 395-408. 2023.The concept of inclusive innovation has become widely embraced in the agricultural domain and promises to overcome traditional innovation paradigms by emphasizing more balanced, sustainable, and just human-environmental relations. Indigenous and local knowledge play an increasingly important role in debates about inclusive innovation, highlighting the diversity of relevant actors and marginalized perspectives. At the same time, the positioning of Indigenous and local knowledge in innovation proc…Read more
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27Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing CommunityHuman Ecology 50 (4): 633-649. forthcoming.Based on a mixed-methods study involving triad tasks and ethnobiological models, we analyze local categories and knowledge of key ethnospecies of fish exploring partial overlaps between artisanal fishers’ and academic knowledge in a fishing community in northeast Brazil. We argue that fishers’ and academic knowledge overlaps may provide common ground for transdisciplinary collaboration, while their partiality requires reflection on epistemological and ontological differences. Here, we show how k…Read more
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386Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing communityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 1 (91). 2022.Transdisciplinary research challenges the divide between Indigenous and academic knowledge by bringing together epistemic resources of heterogeneous stakeholders. The aim of this article is to explore causal explanations in a traditional fishing community in Brazil that provide resources for transdisciplinary collaboration, without neglecting differences between Indigenous and academic experts. Semi-structured interviews were carried out in a fishing village in the North shore of Bahia and our f…Read more
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201What is wrong with global challenges?Journal of Responsible Innovation 1. 2021.Global challenges such as climate change, food security, or public health have become dominant concerns in research and innovation policy. This article examines how responses to these challenges are addressed by governance actors. We argue that appeals to global challenges can give rise to a ‘solution strategy' that presents responses of dominant actors as solutions and a ‘negotiation strategy' that highlights the availability of heterogeneous and often conflicting responses. On the basis of int…Read more
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260What's wrong with global challenges?Journal for Responsible Innovation 1. 2021.Global challenges such as climate change, food security, or public health have become dominant concerns in research and innovation policy. This article examines how responses to these challenges are addressed by governance actors. We argue that appeals to global challenges can give rise to a ‘solution strategy’ that presents responses of dominant actors as solutions and a ‘negotiation strategy’ that highlights the availability of heterogeneous and often conflicting responses. On the basis of int…Read more
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276New Work for a Critical Metaphysics of RaceIn Lorusso Ludovica & Winther Rasmus (eds.), Remapping Race in a Global Context, Routledge. 2021.Analytic metaphysics has become increasingly extended into the social domain. The aim of this article is critical self-reflection on the challenges of transferring the tools of analytic metaphysics from classical cases such as the very existence of abstract or composed objects to socially-contested phenomena such as gender and race. In reflecting on the status of metaphysics of race, I formulate a polemical hypothesis of misalignment according to which the tools of analytic metaphysics are not s…Read more
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38The complexity of the gene and the precision of CRISPR : What is the gene that is being edited?Elementa: Science of Anthropocene 9 (1): 00072. 2021.The rapid development of CRISPR-based gene editing has been accompanied by a polarized governance debate about the status of CRISPR-edited crops as genetically modified organisms. This article argues that the polarization around the governance of gene editing partly reflects a failure of public engagement with the current state of research in genomics and postgenomics. CRISPR-based gene-editing technology has become embedded in a narrow narrative about the ease and precision of the technique tha…Read more
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1725The politics of knowledge in inclusive development and innovation (edited book)Routledge. 2021.This book develops an integrated perspective on the practices and politics of making knowledge work in inclusive development and innovation. While debates about development and innovation commonly appeal to the authority of academic researchers, many current approaches emphasize the plurality of actors with relevant expertise for addressing livelihood challenges. Adopting an action-oriented and reflexive approach, this volume explores the variety of ways in which knowledge works, paying particul…Read more
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211Making Dialogue Work: Responsible Innovation and Gene EditingIn David Ludwig, Birgit Boogaard, Phil Macnaghten & Cees Leeuwis (eds.), The politics of knowledge in inclusive development and innovation, Routledge. 2021.
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261Making transdisciplinarity work: An epistemology of inclusive development and innovationIn David Ludwig, Birgit Boogaard, Phil Macnaghten & Cees Leeuwis (eds.), The politics of knowledge in inclusive development and innovation, Routledge. 2021.
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3612Philosophy or Philosophies? Epistemology or Epistemologies?In David Ludwig & Inkeri Koskinen (eds.), Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, . forthcoming.
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Wageningen University and ResearchCommunication, Philosophy and Technology (CPT)Associate Professor
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands