Silvio Funtowicz
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Silvio Funtowicz, Spring 2016.
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28 May 1946 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Post-normal |
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Main interests
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Philosophy of science |
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Notable ideas
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NUSAP Post-normal science Knowledge Assessment |
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Influences
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Silvio O. Funtowicz (born 1946) is an analytic philosopher active in the field of science and technology studies. He created the NUSAP, notational system for characterising uncertainty and quality in quantitative expressions, and together with Jerome R. Ravetz he introduced the concept of post-normal science. He is presently professor at the University of Bergen (Norway) at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT).
Silvio Funtowicz began his career teaching mathematics, logic and research methodology in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He left Argentina during the military dictatorship, and moved to England where, during the 1980s he was a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. Until his retirement in 2011 he was a scientific officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC). Since February 2012 he has been Professor II at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Silvio Funtowicz's work with Jerome R. Ravetz Uncertainty and quality in science for policy started a series of reflections on the quality of science used for policy, mostly in connection with environmental and technological risks and policy-related research, introducing NUSAP a notational system for the management and communication of uncertainty in science for policy. NUSAP’s applications to different settings were spearheaded in the Netherlands by Jeroen van der Sluijs et al. 2005. Based on this ground work the concept of post-normal science was introduced in a series of papers published in the early nineties.
The article ‘Science for the post-normal age’ is presently the most cited paper of the journal Futures. Another very important and inspiring paper is 'The worth of a songbird:ecological economics as a post-normal science' in Ecological Economics.
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