War, nature and technoscience

Probing technoscience

In the last three decades, the attention of sociologists, historians and philosophers of science was more and more attracted by the concept ‘‘technoscience.’’ It emphasizes an entanglement of science and technology and it was mainly raised to distinguish a ‘‘new’’ type of scientific activities from ‘‘traditional’’ ones with a different epistemic interest producing different objects with a diffe...

Bargaining and the Nature of War

A model of bargaining embedded within a random-walk model of warfare is developed. The conflict model contains aspects of both lottery-based and war-of-attrition models of conflict. Results show that future disputes are less likely to lead to armed conflict following long rather than short wars. Furthermore, should a subsequent dispute lead to armed conflict, the higher the cost and the longer ...

Reflections on science and technoscience

Technoscientific research, a kind of scientific research conducted within the decontextualized approach (DA), uses advanced technology to produce instruments, experimental objects, and new objects and structures, that enable us to gain knowledge of states of affairs of novel domains, especially knowledge about new possibilities of what we can do and make, with the horizons of practical, industr...

the nature of war (mühārebeh)

the nature of war (mühārebeh)   mehdi esmaeli [1]     abstract:   the verse 33 of ma’deh addresses criminalization of war (mühārebeh) and corruption on earth (efsad-fel-arz),  but has not provided any definition of such terms. some jurists consider such terms as one and the same while there are others who differentiate them. indications relevant to addictions to murder, igniting homes, witching...

Network Centric Warfare , Command , and the Nature of War