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  • Hermeneutics, History, and Technology

    The Call of the Future

    Edited by Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann, Martin Sand ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms. Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resource depletion. And when one asks about the world in 20 or 100 years, answers typically revolve around AI, genome editing, or geoengineering.There is great demand to speculate about the future of work, the future of mobility, Industry 4.0, and Humanity 2 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Living Technology

    Philosophy and Ethics at the Crossroads Between Life and Technology

    by Armin Grunwald ...
    The boundaries between inanimate technology and the realm of the living become increasingly blurred. Deeper and deeper technological interventions into living organisms are possible, covering the entire spectrum of life from bacteria to humans. Simultaneously, digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) enable increasingly autonomous technologies. Inanimate technologies such as robots begin to ... Read more

    $99.95 USD

  • Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present

    Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges

    Edited by Andreas Lösch, Armin Grunwald, Martin Meister, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Hermeneutic Side of Responsible Research and Innovation

    by Armin Grunwald ...
    The book investigates the meaning of RRI if little or no valid knowledge about consequences of innovation and technology is available. It proposes a hermeneutical turn to investigate narratives about possible futures with respect to their contemporary meaning instead of regarding them as anticipations of the future. ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

  • Technology Assessment in Practice and Theory

    by Armin Grunwald ...
    Technological advance affects almost all areas of human life. Rapid digitization, increased mobility, new biotechnologies, and nanotechnology deeply influence, amongst others, industrial production, entertainment, work, military affairs, and individual life. Besides overwhelmingly positive effects on wealth, comfort, innovation, and development, this also raises questions of unintended effects, of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Cunning of Uncertainty

    by Helga Nowotny ...
    Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead. But the future is inherently uncertain - and the mist that shrouds our path an inherent part ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Re-Thinking Science

    Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Helga Nowotny, Michael T. Gibbons, Peter B. Scott ...
    Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists that there is a one-way communication flow from science to society - with scant attention given ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Knowledge Management Foundations

    by Steve Fuller ...
    'Knowledge Management Foundations' is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a secure intellectual footing for the myriad of practices called "knowledge management." A breath of fresh air from the usual KM gurus, Fuller openly admits that the advent of KM is a mixed blessing that often amounts to the conduct of traditional management by subtler means. However, Fuller's deep ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Contested Futures

    A Sociology of Prospective Techno-Science

    by Nik Brown, Brian Rappert ...
    In a unique volume, Contested Futures brings together a group of scholars to examine the relationships between social action and the future. Rather than speculating upon what the future might bring, the volume interrogates the metaphors and practices through which the future is mobilized as an object of present day action and agency. The book shifts the analytical gaze from looking into the future ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences

    Edited by Karen Kastenhofer, Susan Molyneux-Hodgson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several scientific fields. Chapters examine whether, and how, today’s scientific identities and communities are subject to fundamental changes, reacting to tangible shifts in research ... Read more

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  • Knowledge

    Is Knowledge Power?

    by Marian Adolf, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that ties them all together. But despite its ubiquity as a modern trope we seldom encounter knowledge in itself. How is it produced, where does it reside, and who owns it? Is knowledge always beneficial, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD