World Ordering : A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution

這本書提出了多重且重疊的國際社會秩序的方法，並使用三個有爭議的秩序的運行案例-歐洲的當代社會秩序，網絡空間秩序和公司秩序-來說明這一理論。基於共同人類和認識論安全的概念，作者還提出了一種關於更好的實踐和有限的進步的規範理論。

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge survive preferentially, communities of practice serve as their vehicle, and social orders evolve. As an evolutionary theory of world ordering, which does not borrow from the natural sciences, it explains why certain configurations of practices organize and govern social orders epistemically and normatively, and why and how these configurations evolve from one social order to another. Suggesting a multiple and overlapping international social orders' approach, the book uses three running cases of contested orders - Europe's contemporary social order, the cyberspace order, and the corporate order - to illustrate the theory. Based on the concepts of common humanity and epistemological security, the author also submits a normative theory of better practices and of bounded progress.ime.

Emanuel Adler (Author) 

Publisher:Cambridge University Press 

ISBN:   978-1108412674