Knowing Tomorrow?: How Science Deals with the FuturePatrick A. Duin In a society characterized by turbulence and change, predicting the future has become an invaluable skill for managers, politicians, and scientists alike. As a result, scientific researchers have become increasingly interested in the study of the future. In Knowing Tomorrow?, an international team of contributors analyzes how the concept of the future is being addressed across academic disciplines. From the perspectives as varied as psychology, philosophy, economics, and astronomy, this groundbreaking volume examines how scholars have incorporated the future in their work. By illustrating how future research can be applied and evaluated, Knowing Tomorrow? establishes this growing field as a discipline in its own right. |
Contents
introduction | |
Inside the foresight mind 21 | |
Dealing with the future in economics | |
64 | |
On the philosophical foundations of futures research | |
The end is nigh but are we there yet? | |
observing the past and predicting the future 167 | |
Why bother with philosophy? 3 Futures research as an action science using | |
References 182 | |
About the authors 213 | |
About the WRR 219 | |
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