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Ph.D. summer course Continental philosophy of Technoscience Nijmegen/Wageningen (First Announcement)
PH.D. Summer Course: Continental Philosophy of technoscience: a diagnostics of the present <br> <br>Scientific research and emerging technologies raise a plethora of philosophical and societal issues. Besides practical, bioethical and policy issues, they have broader, cultural implications as well, affecting and reflecting our zeitgeist and world-view, challenging our understanding of life, nature and ourselves as human beings, and reframing the human condition on a planetary scale. This course explores how to address these issues from a continental philosophical perspective, thereby offering a complementary approach to mainstream (analytical) philosophy of science or sociological approaches like STS. The focus is on methodology, on how to address philosophical and normative challenges in contemporary science and technology from a continental philosophical perspective. This course helps participants to bridge the gap between continental philosophy as it is often practiced in academic settings (focused on author studies) and what is required to actively contribute to the philosophical assessment of current developments in science and technology. How to practice a form of continental philosophy that moves beyond the author studies approach and actively contributes to on-going philosophical and scientific debates, on podiums such as international journals and academic conferences? We opt for a bottom-up perspective, starting from actual research projects and practices as philosophical laboratories. We focus on themes like: (a) the technicity of scientific research; (b) planet Earth during the Anthropocene, and (c) human responsibility in view of the increased plasticity or reproducibility of life. <br> <br>Teaching methods: readings, lectures, deliberations, group activities, informal activities <br>Teachers: Vincent Blok, Luca Consoli, Martin Drenthen, Laurens Landeweerd, Pieter Lemmens, Hub Zwart, Jochem Zwier <br>Schedule: Wednesday 12 – Wednesday 19 September 2018 <br>Location: Nijmegen <br>Information and application: Jochem Zwier (jochem.zwier@ru.nl). <br> <br>Concise schedule (detailed draft syllabus available upon request) <br> <br> <br>Approach <br> <br>Extrapolation <br> <br>Preparatory readings <br> <br>Day 1 <br> <br>Continental philosophy <br> <br>A diagnostics of the present <br> <br>Dialectics <br> <br>Power and agency in contemporary technoscience <br> <br>Day 2 <br> <br>Phenomenology <br> <br>Technology during the Anthropocene <br> <br>Post-phenomenology <br> <br>Continental philosophy and the empirical turn <br> <br>Day 3 <br> <br>Hermeneutics <br> <br>Environmental philosophy: the historicity of nature <br> <br>Process Philosophy <br> <br>Creativity, evolving systems and organic thinking <br> <br>Day 4 <br> <br>Virtue ethics <br> <br>Responsibility <br> <br>Day 5 <br> <br> Psychoanalysis <br> <br> Technoscience, extimacy and discontent <br> <br>Critical Philosophy <br> <br>Knowledge and power, technicity and autonomy <br> <br> Day 6 <br> <br>Choose your path <br> <br>Dialogues / further readings / Individual paper and supervision <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Dr. Vincent Blok MBA <br>Associate Professor in Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Business and Innovation Ethics, Management Studies Group <br>Associate Professor in Philosophy of Management, Technology and Innovation, Philosophy Group <br> <br> <br>Wageningen University <br>Management Studies and Philosophy Group <br>Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN, Wageningen (Building 201) <br>De Leeuwenborch, Room 5060 <br>P.O. Box 8130, 6700 EW, Wageningen <br>T: +31 (0) 317 483623 <br>F: +31 (0) 317 485454 <br>E-mail: vincent.blok@wur.nl <br>Website: www.vincentblok.nl <br>Disclaimer: www.wur.nl/UK/disclaimer.htm <br> <br>[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/vnd] <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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