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51The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (edited book)MIT Press. 2006.Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought.
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23The political economy of technoscienceIn M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application, Springer. pp. 317--336. 2011.
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22Science in the context of technologyIn M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application, Springer. pp. 467--482. 2011.
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15Was wissen die TechnowissenschaftenIn Carl-Friedrich Gethmann (ed.), Lebenswelt Und Wissenschaft, Meiner Verlag. pp. 566--79. 2011.
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Mit der Natur über die Natur hinausIn G. Hofmeister, K. Köchy & M. Norwig (eds.), Nanobiotechnologien. Philosophische, Anthropologische Und Ethische Fragen, Alber. pp. 131--147. 2008.
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25Molecular disjunctions: staking claims at the nanoscaleIn Baird D. (ed.), Discovering the Nanoscale, Ios. pp. 51--62. 2004.
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17Ideas for a philosophy of nature as introduction to the study of this science Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, trans. Errol E. Harris and Peter Heath, intro. Robert Stern , xxvi + 294 pp., $49.50, cloth; $15.95, paper (review)History of European Ideas 12 (4): 566-568. 1990.
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3NanotechnologyIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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58Object lessons: towards an epistemology of technoscienceScientiae Studia 10 (SPE): 11-31. 2012.Discussions of technoscience are bringing to light that scientific journals feature very different knowledge claims. At one end of the spectrum, there is the scientific claim that a hypothesis needs to be reevaluated in light of new evidence. At the other end of the spectrum, there is the technoscientific claim that some new measure of control has been achieved in a laboratory. The latter claim has not received sufficient attention as of yet. In what sense is the achievement of control genuine k…Read more
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89“Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich’s sein!”—Partaking in the NanoworldNanoEthics 5 (2): 233-243. 2011.Images from the nanoworld are not at all disorienting or bewildering, as one might expect from contemplating the strange and surprising features that arise where classical physics comes to an end and quantum effects begin to appear. Instead, we see the traces of explorers in a world that appears to be infinitely malleable. The paper shows that the capability to visualize processes and phenomena at the nanoscale is a matter not only of research technologies and the advancement of observational te…Read more
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32Editors' Introduction: Forays into the Trading Zone of Image and LogicPerspectives on Science 7 (2): 147-150. 1999.
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22Comparing incommensurable theoriesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 17 (2): 231-246. 1986.
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79Invisible origins of nanotechnology: Herbert gleiter, materials science, and questions of prestigePerspectives on Science 17 (2). 2009.Herbert Gleiter promoted the development of nanostructured materials on a variety of levels. In 1981 already, he formulated research visions and produced experimental as well as theoretical results. Still he is known only to a small community of materials scientists. That this is so is itself a telling feature of the imagined community of nanoscale research. After establishing the plausibility of the claim that Herbert Gleiter provided a major impetus, a second step will show just how deeply Gle…Read more
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25Goodbye and farewell: Siegel vs. FeyerabendInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 33 (3). 1990.In his review (Inquiry 32 [1989], pp. 343?69) of Paul Feyerabend's Farewell to Reason, Harvey Siegel makes a fairly simple point: Feyerabend provides a bad argument for a good cause. In particular, Siegel maintains that the argument suffers, first, from self?inflicted depreciation: having been rendered impotent by Feyerabend's views of objectivity and rationality, what claim to persuasion can his argument possibly hold? And second, the argument is said to be incoherent: instead of respecting and…Read more
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134Darwinians at war Bateson's place in histories of DarwinismSynthese 91 (1-2). 1992.The controversy between Biometricians and Mendelians has been called an inexplicable embarrassment since it revolved around the mistaken identification of Mendelian genetics with non-Darwinian saltationism, a mistake traced back to the non-Darwinian William Bateson, who introduced Mendelian analysis to British science. The following paper beings to unravel this standard account of the controversy by raising a simple question: Given that Bateson embraced evolution by natural selection and that he…Read more
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36Knots and strands: An argument for productive disillusionmentJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (3). 2007.This article offers a contrast between European and US-American approaches to the convergence of enabling technologies and to associated issues. It identifies an apparently paradoxical situation in which regional differences produce conflicting claims to universality, each telling us what can and will happen to the benefit of humanity. Those who might mediate and negotiate these competing claims are themselves entangled in the various positions. A possible solution is offered, namely a universal…Read more
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54Facts-well-putBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1): 37-77. 1994.In this paper we elucidate a particular type of instrument. Striking-phenomenon instruments assume their striking profile against the shifting backdrop of theoretical uncertainties. While technologically stable, the phenomena produced by these instruments are linguistically fuzzy, subject to a variety of conceptual representations. But in virtue of their technological stability alone, they can provide a foundation for further technological as well as conceptual development. Sometimes, as in the …Read more
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31Editor's introduction to Peter Galison's image and logic and this Pos collection of critical essaysPerspectives on Science 7 (2): 147-150. 1999.
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331Science Transformed?: Debating Claims of an Epochal Break (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2011.Advancements in computing, instrumentation, robotics, digital imaging, and simulation modeling have changed science into a technology-driven institution. Government, industry, and society increasingly exert their influence over science, raising questions of values and objectivity. These and other profound changes have led many to speculate that we are in the midst of an epochal break in scientific history. This edited volume presents an in-depth examination of these issues from philosophical, h…Read more
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52Beyond conversation: Some lessons for nanoethics (review)NanoEthics 4 (2): 171-181. 2010.One of the aims of the DEEPEN project was to deepen ethical understanding of issues related to emerging nanotechnologies through an interdisciplinary approach utilizing insights from philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences. Accordingly, part of its final report was dedicated to the question of what was accomplished with regards to this aim and what further research is required. It relates two insights: Nanotechnologies intensify the ambivalence of ongoing, long-term developments; and yet, ou…Read more
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60A forensics of wishing: technology assessment in the age of technoscience (review)Poiesis and Praxis 7 (1-2): 5-15. 2010.If one considers the Collingridge dilemma to be a dilemma awaiting a solution, one has implicitly abandoned a genuinely historical conception of the future and adopted instead a notion of the future as an object of technical design, the realisation of technical possibility or as wish-fulfilment. The definition of technology assessment (TA) as a successful response to the Collingridge dilemma renders it a technoscience that shares with all the others the conceit of being able, supposedly, to shap…Read more
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88Establishing commensurability: Intercalation, global meaning and the unity of sciencePerspectives on Science 7 (2): 181-195. 1999.: In the face of disunification and incommensurability, how can the scientific community maintain itself and establish commensurability? According to Peter Galison's investigations of twentieth-century microphysics, commensurability is achieved through local coordination even in the absence of global meaning: The "strength and coherence" of science is due to diverse, yet coordinated action in trading zones between theorists and experimenters, experimenters and instrument builders, etc. Galison's…Read more