We would like to announce a new series of monographs and collected
papers. It explores research practice across the disciplines and
throughout history by foregrounding its technological setting:
- when the problems to be investigated are themselves the product of
science and technology in the modern world,
- when technical and predictive control is sought within the
technological infrastructure of models, instruments, measurements,
computational methods, and media technologies,
- when research accomplishments change the world materially more so than
our thinking about it.
From nanotechnology to the environmental sciences, from alchemy to
pharmacy, from solid state physics to human factors research, how are
problems defined, what counts as an explanation, how are findings
validated, how do values enter in? And most importantly for civic
observers of contemporary research: How is robustness and reliability
achieved even where we lack theoretical understanding?
Members of the editorial board include Hanne Andersen (Aarhus),
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent(Paris), Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), Graeme
Gooday (Leeds), Don Howard (Notre Dame), Ann Johnson (South Carolina),
Cyrus Mody (Rice), Maureen O’Malley (Sydney), Roger Strand (Bergen) and
Nancy Tuana (Pennsylvania State). For more information write to Alfred
Nordmann or Philip Good or see www.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience
Looking forward to queries, suggestions, and submissions,
Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt Technical University)
and Philip Good (Pickering & Chatto Publishers)
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Alfred Nordmann
* Professor am Institut für Philosophie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schloss, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany, +49(0)6151/162995
* Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, USA
* Book series www.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience
* Office for Interdisciplinary NanoTechnologyStudies www.nanobuero.de
* Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects www.goto-objects.eu
* Interdisziplinärer Studienschwerpunkt www.cisp.tu-darmstadt.de/nag
Homepage www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de/nordmann
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