Public understanding of futures & foresight science: A reply to Chermack’s response

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Understanding "understanding" in Public Understanding of Science.

This study examines the conflation of terms such as "knowledge" and "understanding" in peer-reviewed literature, and tests the hypothesis that little current research clearly distinguishes between importantly distinct epistemic states. Two sets of data are presented from papers published in the journal Public Understanding of Science. In the first set, the digital text analysis tool, Voyant, is...

Cognitive Sciences Strategies for Futures Studies (Foresight)

Abstract: It seems before understanding the mind structure and laws governing the process of perception, we’ve gone into the application of science to build better futures. This is because the science begins with attitude not the reality.The major goal of this study is to identify qualitative relationships among key variables across of Cognitive Sciences (CS) with Futures Studies (FS).Ideas and...

Constructing futures ; a social constructionist perspective on foresight methodology

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between a particular epistemological perspective and foresight methodology. We draw on a body of social theory concerned with the way that meaning is produced and assimilated by society; specifically, the social construction of knowledge, which is distinguished from its near-neighbour constructivism by its focus on inter-subjectivity. We ...

A Challenging Conversation on Integral Futures: Embodied Foresight & Trialogues