Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of Contents1 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.
