Knowledge Communities in Europe

?How do transnational communities of scientists emerge and evolve, and how does scientific cooperation interact with social and political integration in Europe? This collection assembles a wide array of analyses from philosophy and sociology of science and the social sciences tackling these questions from various perspectives. The contributions from philosophy investigate the foundations of social epistemology, and the features and development of significant transnational research communities in the natural sciences, while those from sociology and political science examine the various forms of interaction between transborder scientific and other expert activities and broader social and political integration. They are united by advancing our understanding of the complex network of transnational intellectual discourses, identities, interests, and integration in Europe.ContentsDiscoveries of oxygen and the Chemical Revolution in the context of European scientific networks. - From interaction to integration? Transnational scientific communities in biology. - Science and the manufacture of a political order: A sociological study of the European manned space programme. - European research programmes: Spaces of knowledge or economic tool? - Expert communities and security: Neofunctional integration in European policing practices. - An epistemic-consequentialist social epistemology as an epistemological perspective concerning the investigation of a common, European knowledge community  Target GroupsLecturers and students of natural and social sciences and philosophyPractitioners in science promotion and science managementThe EditorsDr. Bertold Schweitzer is Lecturer in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Dundee.Dr. Thomas Sukopp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy/Didactics of Philosophy at the University of Siegen.