Continental Philosophy of Technoscience.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zwart, Hub.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Philosophy of Engineering and Technology Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Coming to Terms with Technoscience
  • Continental Philosophy as a Research Program
  • Hegelian Dialectics
  • Dialectical Materialism
  • Psychoanalysis of Technoscience
  • Heideggerian Phenomenology
  • From Dialectics to Phenomenology and Back
  • Convergence
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Dialectics of Technoscience
  • Genesis of Dialectics
  • Dialectics of Technoscience: First Outline
  • The Oblique Perspective
  • The Inherent Negativity of Technoscience
  • Outline of a Methodology
  • Hegel's Logic: The Interaction Between Philosophy (as a Science) and Science
  • Dialectics and the Real
  • The Chemical Process as a Syllogism
  • From Syllogism to System
  • Extrapolations
  • Philosophy of Nature
  • Polarity
  • Domestication Domesticated
  • Planet Earth as a Terrestrial Organism
  • Hegel and the End of Evolution
  • Dialectics of Technoscience
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Dialectical Materialism
  • Introduction
  • Fragments on Method
  • Anton Pannekoek: A Marxist View on the History of Astronomy
  • Friedrich Engels and the Technoscientific Reproducibility of Life
  • Dialectics of Science and Nature as a Research Program
  • Engels' Dialectical Materialist Rereading of Hegel
  • Dialectics of Science and Nature
  • From Bourgeois Metaphysics to Dialectics of Science
  • Dialectical Materialism Versus Bourgeois Epistemology in Twentieth Century Marxism
  • From Artificial Proteins to Synthetic Cells
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Psychoanalysing Technoscience
  • Psychoanalysis and the Psychic Machine
  • Gaston Bachelard: The Inherent Dialectics of Technoscience
  • Psychoanalysis and Dialectics
  • The Year 1953
  • Jacques Lacan: Formalising the Hegelian Syllogism
  • Discourse of the Master
  • The Emancipation of S2 - The Case History of Ivan Pavlov.
  • University Discourse and Its Vicissitudes
  • A First Case History: The Majorana Particle
  • Discourse of the Analyst
  • Language and the Tormented Subject ()
  • Second Case History: Malaria Research
  • Third Case History: The Nude Mouse
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Louis Althusser: Science and Ideology
  • Rereading Marx
  • Practising Dialectics: Active Reading (First Moment)
  • Symptomatic Reading (the Second Moment)
  • Reading Capital
  • Reading Althusser
  • The Specificity of a Marxist Dialectic of Technoscience
  • Friedrich Engels on Marx and Lavoisier
  • The Object of Knowledge, the Real Object and the Problematic of Technoscientific Appropriation
  • The Spontaneous Philosophy of Science and the Experience of a Scientific Crisis
  • Incorporating Althusser
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Coming to Terms with Technoscience: The Heideggerian Way
  • Introduction
  • Heidegger on Method: Setting the Stage
  • Heidegger's Early Views on Method
  • Heidegger's Method after the Turn: First Exploration
  • Heidegger's Discourse on Method: On our Way Towards Technoscience
  • Handling πρτ̔̈”Α<U+0043>·γματα: The Vicissitudes of Technoscientific Objects
  • Laboratories as (Worldly - Unworldly) Settings
  • Technoscience as a Global Research Enterprise
  • Concluding Reflection: Is a Technoscience-Philosophy Dialogue Possible?
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Phenomenology of the Noosphere
  • Introduction
  • What Is Phenomenology?
  • Teilhard de Chardin's Views on Science, Technology and Evolution
  • Case History: A Teilhardian Assessment of Human Genomics
  • Teilhard as a Dialectical Thinker
  • The Ascent of the Spirit and the Noosphere
  • Teilhard and Lacan: From Skulls to Shells
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Philosophy of Technoscience: From Cis-Continental to Trans-Continental
  • Taking Stock: The Noumenal Turn in Technoscience.
  • The Technoscientific Revolution and its Summa
  • Convergence
  • Discourse of Capitalism
  • Neo-Liberalism and Post-Truth
  • References.