Book series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
We would like to announce a new series of monographs and
collected papers. It explores research practice across the disciplines and
throughout history by foregrounding its technological setting:
- when the problems to be investigated are themselves the
product of science and technology in the modern world,
- when technical and predictive control is sought within
the technological infrastructure of models, instruments, measurements,
computational methods, and media technologies,
- when research accomplishments change the world
materially more so than our thinking about it.
From nanotechnology to the environmental sciences, from
alchemy to pharmacy, from solid state physics to human factors research, how
are problems defined, what counts as an explanation, how are findings
validated, how do values enter in? And most importantly for civic observers of
contemporary research: How is robustness and reliability achieved even where we
lack theoretical understanding?
Members of the editorial board include Hanne Andersen
(Aarhus), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent(Paris), Martin Carrier (Bielefeld),
Graeme Gooday (Leeds), Don Howard (Notre Dame), Ann Johnson (South Carolina),
Cyrus Mody (Rice), Maureen O’Malley (Sydney), Roger Strand (Bergen) and Nancy
Tuana (Pennsylvania State). For more information write to Alfred Nordmann or
Philip Good or see www.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience
Looking forward to queries, suggestions, and submissions,
Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt Technical University) and
Philip Good (Pickering & Chatto Publishers) pgood@pickeringchatto.co.uk
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Alfred Nordmann
* Professor am Institut für Philosophie, Technische
Universität Darmstadt, Schloss, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany, +49(0)6151/162995
* Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of South
Carolina, USA
* Book series www.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience
* Office for Interdisciplinary NanoTechnologyStudies www.nanobuero.de
* Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects www.goto-objects.eu
* Interdisziplinärer Studienschwerpunkt www.cisp.tu-darmstadt.de/nag
Homepage www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de/nordmann
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