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The book addresses the challenge of living in a multilingual world from three perspectives: socio-linguistics and the study of multilingualism in contrast, philosophy of technology with its emphasis on the world as a technosphere-how it is made, how it is experienced, and how it can be managed, and then pedagogy and the question of teaching and learning to competently negotiate multilingual environments. In today's multicultural and multilingual world, technologies provide a common ground. The story of the technosphere as a multilingual environment offers new perspective, namely that of learning to cooperate and coordinate

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Dimensions of Creativity -- Creativity in Engineering - Classics of Modern Dialectical Philosophy Revisited -- 1 Concepts of Creative Activity in Hegel and Marx -- 2 Freedom and Necessity -- 3 Scientific Activity and Engineering -- 4 Engineering as the Universal and the Communal Work -- References -- Work Engagement - Gateway to Creativity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research Questions and Method -- 3 Key Concepts -- 4 Discussion -- 4.1 Discussion of Propositions -- 4.2 Answering the Research Questions -- 4.3 The Role of Managers and Leaders in WE -- 5 Conclusions -- 5.1 Implications for Managers and Leaders -- 5.2 Limitations and Future Research -- 5.3 Contributions -- References -- Cosmos and Metacosmos in Dessauer's Philosophy of Technology: Inventing the Environment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Dessauerian Ontology: Cosmos and Metacosmos -- 3 Humans as a Means of Connecting Worlds -- 4 The Logic of Progress, the Problem of Environment -- 5 Ethics -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Creativity as a Technology -- 1 Introduction (Semantic Source of "Creativity") -- 2 New Creativity, Technology and True Creativity -- 3 Some Traits of "New Creativity" -- 4 New Creativity "Creatisms" -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Talent as a Personality Resource of People with Schizotypal Personality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Epistemic Foraging and the Creative Process: Crawling Over Creation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Free Energy Principle and Creativity -- 3 A Thought Experiment: The Toddler and the Robot Vacuum Cleaner -- 4 Frameworks and Freedom -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Creativity and Its Genetic Foundations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- References -- Images of Giftedness and Creativity -- 1 Introduction.

We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific research themselves are generated by science and technology. Simultaneously, problems like global warming, the toxicology of nanoparticles, or the use of renewable energies are constituted by many factors that interact with great complexity. Science in the context of application is challenged to gain new understanding and control of such complexity - it cannot seek shelter in the ivory tower or simply pursue its internal quest for understanding and gradual improvement of grand theories. Science in the Context of Application will identify, explore and assess these changes. Part I considers the 'Changing Conditions of Scientific Research' and part II 'Science, Values, and Society'. Examples are drawn from pharmaceutical research, the information sciences, simulation modelling, nanotechnology, cancer research, the effects of commercialization, and many other fields. The book assembles papers from well-known European and American Science Studies scholars like Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Janet Kourany, Michael Mahoney, Margaret Morrison, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Arie Rip, Dan Sarewitz, Peter Weingart, and others. The individual chapters are written to address anyone who is concerned about the role of contemporary science in society, including scientists, philosophers, and policy makers.