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    Unentwegt werden neue technische Produkte gestaltet. Doch was macht die technische Gestaltung aus? Wie lässt sich ihr Gegenstand - (noch) nicht existierende Artefakte - adäquat auf den Begriff bringen? Michael Kuhn begreift technische Ideen vor ihrer Realisierung als Fiktionen. Er bietet eine fiktionstheoretische Rekonstruktion der Gestaltungstätigkeit und entwickelt hieraus eine Ethik der Gestaltung. Der stark interdisziplinäre Zugang zwischen Technikphilosophie und Ingenieurwissenschaften lief…Read more
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    Justice considerations in climate research
    with Caroline Zimm, Kian Mintz-Woo, Elina Brutschin, Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Roman Hoffmann, Kikstra Jarmo, Jihoon Min, Raya Muttarak, Keywan Riahi, and Thomas Schinko
    Nature Climate Change 14 (1): 22-30. 2023.
    Climate change and decarbonization raise complex justice questions that researchers and policymakers must address. The distributions of greenhouse gas emissions rights and mitigation efforts have dominated justice discourses within scenario research, an integrative element of the IPCC. However, the space of justice considerations is much larger. At present, there is no consistent approach to comprehensively incorporate and examine justice considerations. Here we propose a conceptual framework gr…Read more
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    Why a theory about social sciences? -- Chapter A: The world's social in social science thinking -- Chapter B: Categorical essentials of disciplinary thinking -- Chapter C: The social science approach to scientific thinking-advancements of teleological theorizing -- Chapter D: The discourse about and the progress of social science knowledge -- Chapter E: Going beyond the social sciences.
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    Boekbesprekingen
    with Wim Weren, P. C. Beentjes, Bart-J. Koet, J. -J. Suurmond, Jan Lambrecht, A. L. H. M. van Wieringen, F. De Meyer, L. Dequeker, M. Poorthuis, B. Dehandschutter, Martin Parmentier, G. Rouwhorst, W. Parmentier, M. Parmentier, Marc Schneiders, A. H. C. van Eijk, Ulrich Hemel, Michel Coune, R. G. W. Huysmans, Michael Kuhn, Marc Steen, J. Verhaeghe, H. J. Adriaanse, Ger Groot, H. Bleijendaal, G. Verwey, A. van de Pavert, J. W. Hacking, and Marie-José van Bolhuis
    Bijdragen 48 (1): 75-110. 1987.
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    This volume presents perspectives on spatially construed knowledge systems and their struggle to interrelate. Western social sciences tend to be wrapped up in very specific, exclusionary discourses, and Northern and Southern knowledge systems are sidelined. _Spatial Social Thought_ reimagines the social sciences as a place of encounter between all spatially bound, parochial knowledge systems