Jerome Ravetz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3705724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome Ravetz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravetz |
| SIGNATURE | RAVETZ J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Descartes to Rumsfeld
Descartes expands on the complaint, providing first a loving apology for humanistic learning and then a detailed assassination of the curriculum. Few modern readers of the text would notice anything worthy of a pause. But for Descartes’ readers, this passage betrays an epochal shift in the conception of knowledge. It is one on which the Scientific Revolution and the contemporary framework of knowledge all depend. Up until the time of Descartes an…
The Significance of the Hamburg Workshop
In this essay I review my own involvement in climate science, and attempt to draw some useful lessons. I start with a critique of the theory of post-normal science (PNS). This is derived from the experience of the effective criticisms of PNS that were made on the blogosphere. I proceed to a critique of climate science itself, which might be described as the attempt to solve a post-normal problem by "normal science" methods. Since quality, in a va…
Feral futures
Dissenting individuals
The Emperor's new models
Environmental science theory
Normal accidents; Living with high-risk technologies
On the regulation of technology
Marxism and the History of Science
Scientific knowledge and expert advice in debates about large technological innovations
Scientific knowledge and expert advice in debates about large technological innovations
Marxism and the History of Science
On the regulation of technology
Normal accidents; Living with high-risk technologies
Environmental science theory
The Emperor's new models
Dissenting individuals
Feral futures
The Significance of the Hamburg Workshop
In this essay I review my own involvement in climate science, and attempt to draw some useful lessons. I start with a critique of the theory of post-normal science (PNS). This is derived from the experience of the effective criticisms of PNS that were made on the blogosphere. I proceed to a critique of climate science itself, which might be described as the attempt to solve a post-normal problem by "normal science" methods. Since quality, in a va…
From Descartes to Rumsfeld
Descartes expands on the complaint, providing first a loving apology for humanistic learning and then a detailed assassination of the curriculum. Few modern readers of the text would notice anything worthy of a pause. But for Descartes’ readers, this passage betrays an epochal shift in the conception of knowledge. It is one on which the Scientific Revolution and the contemporary framework of knowledge all depend. Up until the time of Descartes an…
Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)