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Living Techno-Natures - Biohybrid Objects, Life, And Technology

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 The boundaries between life and technology have become fundamentally blurred in the early 21st century. Bringing together innovative interdisciplinary contributions, the volume aims to provide insights on the emergence and nature of biohybrid objects from philosophy, epistemology, and science and technology studies.
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Living Techno-Natures - Biohybrid Objects, Life, And Technology

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 The boundaries between life and technology have become fundamentally blurred in the early 21st century. Bringing together innovative interdisciplinary contributions, the volume aims to provide insights on the emergence and nature of biohybrid objects from philosophy, epistemology, and science and technology studies.
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Translations Of Responsibility - Innovation Governance In Three European Regions

by Rasmus Slaattelid, Roger Strand e Thomas Volker

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 This book tells the story of how TRANSFORM translated RRI into practice, all the way from philosophy of technology to EU policy jargon, to the project contract and finally into the real-life events in these regions.
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Hermeneutics, History, And Technology - The Call Of The Future

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 Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resource depletion. Is the future an object of design? This question can bring together and divide policy makers and it will interest also the scientists and engineers who labor under the demand to deliver that future.
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Translations Of Responsibility - Innovation Governance In Three European Regions

by Rasmus Slaattelid, Roger Strand e Thomas Volker

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 This book tells the story of how TRANSFORM translated RRI into practice, all the way from philosophy of technology to EU policy jargon, to the project contract and finally into the real-life events in these regions.
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Living In A Nuclear World - From Fukushima To Hiroshima

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 Prompted by the Fukushima disaster, this volume explores how nuclear technology has shaped the world and how we have come to live with it. Multidisciplinary (anthropology, history, STS) and transnational in scope, it features themes such as violence, containment, normalization, and memories.
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Philosophy Of Interdisciplinarity - Studies In Science, Society And Sustainability

by Jan Cornelius (University Of Darmstadt, Germany) Schmidt

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 Interdisciplinarity is a hallmark of contemporary knowledge production. This book introduces a Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity at the intersection of science, society, and sustainability. It offers a critical-reflexive program of interdisciplinarity for a sustainable knowledge society.
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Hermeneutics, History, And Technology - The Call Of The Future

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 Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resource depletion. Is the future an object of design? This question can bring together and divide policy makers and it will interest also the scientists and engineers who labor under the demand to deliver that future.
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Hermeneutics, History, And Technology - The Call Of The Future

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 Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resource depletion. Is the future an object of design? This question can bring together and divide policy makers and it will interest also the scientists and engineers who labor under the demand to deliver that future.
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Post-Truth Imaginations - New Starting Points For Critique Of Politics And Technoscience

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 This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised.
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Material Hermeneutics - Reversing The Linguistic Turn

by Don Ihde

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 Material Hermeneutics explores the ways that new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history. It will appeal to scholars and students of the humanities, as well as anthropologists and archaeologists.
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Hermeneutics, History, And Technology - The Call Of The Future

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 Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resource depletion. Is the future an object of design? This question can bring together and divide policy makers and it will interest also the scientists and engineers who labor under the demand to deliver that future.
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Reflections On The Practice Of Physics - James Clerk Maxwellâ€™S Methodological Odyssey In Electromagnetism

by Bernard R. Goldstein e Giora Hon

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 This monograph examines James Clerk Maxwellâ€™s contributions to electromagnetism to gain insight into the practice of science by focusing on scientific methodology as applied by scientists.
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The Mysterious Science Of The Sea, 1775â€“1943

by Natascha (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany) Adamowsky

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 The depths of the oceans are the last example of terra incognita on earth. Adamowsky presents a study of the sea, arguing that â€" contrary to popular belief â€" post-Enlightenment discourse on the sea was still subject to mystery and wonder, and not wholly rationalized by science.
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The Past, Present, And Future Of Integrated History And Philosophy Of Science

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 This volume presents cutting edge research from junior iHPS scholars, and in doing so provides a snapshot of current developments within the field.
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Nanotechnology And Its Governance

by Arie (University Of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands) Rip

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 This book charts the development of nanotechnology in relation to society from the early years of the twenty first century. It offers a sustained analysis of the life of nanotechnology, from the laboratory to society, from scientific promises to societal governance and attempts to modulate developments.
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Perspectives On Classification In Synthetic Sciences - Unnatural Kinds

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 This volume refocuses conversations about classification on un-natural, or synthetic, kinds via extensive study of two paradigm cases of unnatural kinds: in the first place, nanomaterials, and in the second, stem cells and synthetic biology.
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The Reform Of The International System Of Units (Si) - Philosophical, Historical And Sociological Issues

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 Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve but this could change with the current reform of the International System of Units. This book invites a philosophical inquiry that promises to overcome the tensions that have long obstructed science studies.
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Scientists' Expertise As Performance - Between State And Society, 1860â€“1960

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 The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management. Contributors argue that experts were highly aware of their audiences and used performance to gain both scientific and popular support.
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Standardization In Measurement - Philosophical, Historical And Sociological Issues

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 The application of standard measurement is a cornerstone of modern science. In this collection of essays, standardization of procedure, units of measurement and the epistemology of standardization are addressed by specialists from sociology, history and the philosophy of science.
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From Models To Simulations

by Franck (University Of Rouen, France) Varenne

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 This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism, computation, data acquisition, data and visualization and how these factors have led to the sprea
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Visual Representations In Science - Concept And Epistemology

by Nicola (Aachen University, Germany) Moãÿner

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 In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates for research objects which are otherwise cognitively inaccessible. Philosophers of science have more or less neglected visual representations in their analyses of epistemic methods and tools of reasoning in science. This book is meant to fill this gap.
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Environments Of Intelligence - From Natural Information To Artificial Interaction

by Hajo (Technical University Of Munich, Germany) Greif

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 What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate '4E' theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive).
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A History Of Technoscience - Erasing The Boundaries Between Science And Technology

by David F. Channell

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 This book charts the history of technoscience from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.
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