Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

by Hub Zwart

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030845728
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/19/2021
Series:	Philosophy of Engineering and Technology , #38
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Coming to terms with technoscience.- 2 Dialectics of Technoscience.- 3 Dialectical materialism.- 4 Psychoanalysing technoscience.- 5 Louis Althusser: science and ideology.- 6 Coming to terms with technoscience: the Heideggerian way.- 7 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s phenomenology of the noosphere.- 8 Philosophy of technoscience: from cis-continental to trans-continental.