PH.D. Summer Course: Continental Philosophy of technoscience: a diagnostics of the present
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.
Teaching methods: readings, lectures, deliberations, group activities, informal activities
Teachers: Vincent Blok, Luca Consoli, Martin Drenthen, Laurens Landeweerd, Pieter Lemmens, Hub Zwart, Jochem Zwier
Schedule: Wednesday 12 – Wednesday 19 September 2018
Location: Nijmegen
Information and application: Jochem Zwier (jochem.zwier@ru.nl).
Concise schedule (detailed draft syllabus available upon request)
Approach
Extrapolation
Preparatory readings
Day 1
Continental philosophy
A diagnostics of the present
Dialectics
Power and agency in contemporary technoscience
Day 2
Phenomenology
Technology during the Anthropocene
Post-phenomenology
Continental philosophy and the empirical turn
Day 3
Hermeneutics
Environmental philosophy: the historicity of nature
Process Philosophy
Creativity, evolving systems and organic thinking
Day 4
Virtue ethics
Responsibility
Day 5
Psychoanalysis
Technoscience, extimacy and discontent
Critical Philosophy
Knowledge and power, technicity and autonomy
Day 6
Choose your path
Dialogues / further readings / Individual paper and supervision
Dr. Vincent Blok MBA
Associate Professor in Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Business and Innovation Ethics, Management Studies Group
Associate Professor in Philosophy of Management, Technology and Innovation, Philosophy Group
Wageningen University
Management Studies and Philosophy Group
Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN, Wageningen (Building 201)
De Leeuwenborch, Room 5060
P.O. Box 8130, 6700 EW, Wageningen
T: +31 (0) 317 483623
F: +31 (0) 317 485454
E-mail: vincent.blok@wur.nl
Website: www.vincentblok.nl
Disclaimer: www.wur.nl/UK/disclaimer.htm
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