Kant on scientific pedantry and epistemic populism
In: Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1502-3923
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In: Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1502-3923
In: Soziopolis: Gesellschaft beobachten
Andreas Gelhard, Ruben Hackler, Sandro Zanetti (Hrsg.): Epistemische Tugenden - Zur Geschichte und Gegenwart eines Konzepts. Historische Wissensforschung, Bd. 11. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2019. 978-3-16-154072-1
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 491-495
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 103-123
ISSN: 1875-2152
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 190, Heft 2, S. 253-272
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Science, technology & society: an international journal devoted to the developing world, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 143-164
ISSN: 0973-0796
The present paper contributes to a growing body of philosophical, sociological, and historical analyses of recent nanoscale science and technology. Through a close examination of the origins of contemporary nanotech efforts, their ambitions, and strategic uses, it also aims to provide the basis for a critical theory of emerging technologies more generally, in particular in relation to their alleged convergence in terms of goals and outcomes. The emergence, allure, and implications of nanotechnology, it is argued, can only be fully appreciated if one looks beyond its immediate technical and scientific payoffs to its infrastructural and ideological aspects. While nanotechnology aims to reshape the world 'atom by atom', its most tangible result so far has been the profound effect it has had on the organization of science-at-large, not least as the result of a thorough reshaping of the 'soft' funding infrastructure that places significant constraints on the pursuit of long-term scientific research programmes. The paper concludes by noting a persistent, and perhaps deepening, gap between the utopian visions of some of nanotechnology's most vocal proponents and the realities of contemporary nanotechnological practice, which continue to be marked by global inequities.
In: Studies in East European thought, Band 64, Heft 1-2, S. 121-142
ISSN: 1573-0948
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 169, Heft 3, S. 497-519
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Berliner Republik: das Debattenmagazin, Heft 3, S. 12-13
ISSN: 1616-4903
In: Science, technology & society: an international journal devoted to the developing world, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 1-10
ISSN: 0973-0796