Common Knowledge
The Challenge Of Transdisciplinarity

Editors
Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte, Frédéric Darbellay,Francis Waldvogel

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Contents

Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Introduction by M. Cockell, J. Billotte, F. Darbellay and F. Waldvogel

Chapter 1 Common Responsibilities

1.1 Public, relational and organizational trust in economic affairs
by Karen S. Cook and Oliver Schilke Department of Sociology, Stanford University

1.2 Learning from the past: how to bring ethics and economics in line with the real nature of the human being
by Philipp Aerni Institute for Environmental Decisions at ETH Zurich and the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern

1.3 Collective intelligence and business enterprise 2.0
by Florence Devouard Advisory Board Member of Wikimedia Foundation

1.4 Science and the social contract: on the purposes, uses and abuses of science
by Sarah Chan, John Harris and John Sulston Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, Manchester University

1.5 Scientific knowledge Leads to moral responsibilities – case study synthetic biology
by Anna Deplazes-Zemp and Sebastian Leidel Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster

Chapter 2 Common Goals

2.1 War and peace: conflict and cooperation in a tropical insect society
by Raghavendra Gadagkar Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore

2.2 Towards understanding conflict elicitation and conflict resolution: challenges for brain, behavioral and social sciences
by Urs Luterbacher, Sebastian Di Iorio and Beth Krasna CISCAN Consortium, Geneva

2.3 Academic prejudice and the spirit of humbleness
by Edmund Harriss Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Arkansas

2.4 Kachile – concepts, tools & strategies for a post-conflict environment
by Ulf Richter CENTRUM Católica, Universidad Católica del Perú

2.5 Disciplines for the common good: from insular to systemic interdisciplinarity
by Filippo Dal Fiore SENSEable City Laboratory, M.I.T. Cambridge

2.6 Frontiers research: seek, share & create
by Henry Markram & Kamila Markram Frontiers Research Foundation, EPFL, Lausanne

Chapter 3 Common Language

3.1 Towards a science of collective intelligence
by Pierre Lévy Department of Communication, University of Ottawa

3.2 Collective quality: How to design collective standards of knowledge
by Gloria Origgi Institute Jean Nicod, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

3.3 Web science and reflective practice
by Kieron O’Hara and Wendy Hall School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

3.4 Science blogs in research and popularization of science: why, how and for whom?
by Antoine Blanchard C@fé des Sciences

3.5 Understanding the science of stories
by Noreen Golfman Department of English and Film, Memorial University, Newfoundland