David Ludwig

Transformative Transdisciplinarity

What is transdisciplinary philosophy? This week, David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani introduce their new open access book with Oxford University Press. In it they explore the development and facilitation of community-based philosophy.

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Interested in our new book but more "500 words interested" than "300 pages interested"? Check out our short post on "What is Transdisciplinary Philosophy?" imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/what...

Announcing Thomas Reviews: A new format for impact at the intersection of plants, people and the planet Click on the article title to read more.

you can find more info on the format here. Thomas reviews are literature review articles that are still blind reviewed nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Transdisciplinary plant sciences: A review Socio-ecological crises such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and food insecurity require academic expertise and also the inclusion of diverse actors outside of academia such as farmers, policym...

The journal Plants, People, Planet launched the "Thomas Reviews" format and invited me to contribute with an article on Transdisciplinary Plant Sciences. It's been fun to think about transformations of the plant sciences from such a broad perspective.
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Yay, welcome on board! Added you :)

The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!

There are still a few days to submit an abstract to this great @tapuya.org Special Issue on "Transdisciplinary research for socio-environmental challenges" that grew out of our Global Epistemologies and Ontologies (GEOS) Project.

Absolutely intellectually spoiled these past 2 days! At ‘A New Odyssey for Public Engagement’ in London, leading thinkers in science, diplomacy & public engagement from 4 continents came together to explore how the ODESSI framework (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) can guide global dialogues on science 🌍✨

From epistemology to ontology to politics, community-based approaches reveal that knowledge is not singular. Partial overlaps, not binaries, guide how communities understand and act. Transformative Transdisciplinarity argues for a philosophy of science rooted in agency and diversity: bit.ly/4gswVsU

“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice Reflecting on the rapid growth of epistemic injustice scholarship, this article proposes an ‘active alignment account’ for relating epistemic and social justice. The account contains both critical ...

Cheeky title, lively examples & points.
E.g. on epistemic justice and it's relationship with 3 dimensions of social justice- distribution, recognition & representation. Epistemic extraction. Not reductionism to economic inequality!

by David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social
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Awww, thanks! I feel it's all still quite clumsy and I'm mostly confused myself - but yeah: fun times experimenting with "doing philosophy differently" :)

“The people of Techiman eat Teporo”: migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana - Agriculture and Human Values Local knowledges of farmers often remain marginalized in wider agricultural development interventions. Scholars, practitioners and non-profit organisations have stressed the importance of including fa...

"'The people of Techiman eat Teporo': migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana" - our new article explores knowledge diversity beyond the simple divide of scientific vs. local knowledge. Unfortunately not OA yet but happy to share the paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exciting times for philosophy of economics

Doctoral defence, with opponent, custos and me - opponent speaking to the audience and me looking at the opponent.

Defended my doctoral dissertation on grand challenges and research policy yesterday. Such a wonderful day! Big thanks to opponent @davidludwig.bsky.social and custos @ustagan10.bsky.social & all who joined! 🌸🌷💖

This looks great - thanks for sharing! I just ordered the book for our library, and looking forward to reading it

The cited papers/books by @lastpositivist.bsky.social @kylewhyte.bsky.social @gscoulthard.bsky.social & @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social have been helpful in shaping my thoughts on this - thanks :)

It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice Reflecting on the rapid growth of epistemic injustice scholarship, this article proposes an ‘active alignment account’ for relating epistemic and social justice. The account contains both critical ...

"It’s a shame that you can’t afford rent, but we can offer epistemic compensation." - my paper on relating epistemic and social justice is out. Mostly written as self-therapy, struggling with my own scholarship. But we also need a broader discussion on ways forward in "epistemic injustice" debates.

Join us in Newcastle for the "Understanding Science Co-Creation in Climate and Environmental Research" conference 19-20 June!

If you're in the Netherlands, join us for this little "political economy/ecology meets political epistemology/ontology" event next Monday afternoon, 24 Feb

you're already on the list :)

Agree - I didn't mean to suggest that current funding priorities are in the public interest. They are often evidently not. What can be disentangled & quantified though: whether public funding priorities change or whether they disappear in a privatized model of commodified research. Guess we'll see.

Agree with everything in the thread but the issue of the day seems less about public control of scientific priorities but about the eradication of public interest science in a vision of fully commodified research?

Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity • SftP Magazine Similar to Cabral’s and Freire’s strategies, the Zapatista attempt was to mobilize Indigenous and scientific knowledge together for liberation purposes. The goal was, in other words, to build an allia...

Epistemic diversity is great but often becomes reduced to a superficial management & mainstreaming tool. Excited that the lovely magazine _Science for the People_ published our little article "Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity. Between Community Struggles and Corporate Capture"

German Research Foundation DFG closing its Twitter account and landing here. Every day, bluesky seems to become a little bit more attractive & useful. At least as a nerdy hangout for academics.

Event poster - "Doing Development", 9 Jan, University of Ghent

If you're in Belgium, join us for this nice seminar with David Azupogo (Millar Insitute, Ghana) on "Doing Development. Epistemic Justice and the Integration of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Research and development." in Ghent on Jan 9.

2025 is a great year to get into transdisciplinary & participatory action research. Reposting this starter pack I made a while a ago, full of awesome researchers

Schlachtensee evening scene

Schlachtensee evening scene

Schlachtensee evening scene

Schlachtensee evening scene

Back home in Berlin for the winter holidays and for evening walks at the Schlachtensee

Bloomberg article with headline "Amazon Is Targeted by Teamsters Union in Effort to Disrupt Christmas"

My favorite news headline today. I'm imagining an investigative Bloomberg journalist unmasking the sinister union plot: "We'll make it look like an effort to improve labor conditions but what we truly desire is to disrupt Christmas! 🎄"

Apparently, more work went into it as the website actually says quite a bit on its methodology and even open sourced its algorithm. So better as a slide for the talk on "algorithmic bullshit" than "AI bullshit" 😅 thegreatestbooks.org/rankings