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Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

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  • Uniquely draws upon tradition of continental thought express philosophies of science and technology

  • Discloses that scientific knowledge emerges from a technologically driven way of interacting with nature

  • Includes recent strands of continental scholarship on technology such as critical theory and feminism

  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 38)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction: Coming to Terms with Technoscience

    • Hub Zwart
    Pages 1-15Open Access
  3. Dialectics of Technoscience

    • Hub Zwart
    Pages 17-65Open Access
  4. Dialectical Materialism

    • Hub Zwart
    Pages 67-109Open Access
  5. Psychoanalysing Technoscience

    • Hub Zwart
    Pages 111-149Open Access
  6. Louis Althusser: Science and Ideology

    • Hub Zwart
    Pages 151-179Open Access

About this book

The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today.

This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis) in developing a coherent message around the technicity of science or rather, “technoscience”. Within technoscience, the focus will be on recent developments in life sciences research, such as genomics, post-genomics, synthetic biology and global ecology. This book uniquely presents continental perspectives that tend to be underrepresented in mainstream philosophy of science, yet entail crucial insights for coming to terms with technoscience as it is evolving on a global scale today.

This is an open access book.

Keywords

  • Dialectics and technoscience
  • Psychoanalysis and science
  • Hegel and science
  • Bachelard and technoscience
  • Heidegger and science
  • Philosophy of technology
  • life science research and philosophy
  • continental philosophy of science
  • dialectical materialism and science
  • Open Access

Authors and Affiliations

  • Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Hub Zwart

About the author

Hub Zwart (1960) studied philosophy and psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen, worked as a research associate at the Centre for Bioethics in Maastricht (1988-1992) and defended his thesis in 1993. In 2000 he became full Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Science RU Nijmegen and in 2018 he was appointed as Dean of Erasmus School of Philosophy (Erasmus University Rotterdam). He has published 15 books and  over 100 academic papers. In his research he develops a continental philosophical perspective on contemporary technoscience. Special attention is given to genres of the imagination (novels, plays, poetry) in research and education.

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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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