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Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the …
The Persistence of Technology – Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal
Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts become old and worn out, …
The Plausibility of Future Scenarios – Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning
What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's ubiquity, its epistemological and empirical foundations …
More Than Machines? – The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology
We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into …
Science, Art, and Neuroethics – Transdisciplinary Collaborations to Foster Public Engagement
Research in the field of neurotechnology raises ethical and societal questions and thus represents a particular challenge for public engagement efforts. How should formats of …
The Construction of Analogy–Based Research Progr – The Lock–and–Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry
When the German chemist Emil Fischer presented his lock-and-key hypothesis in 1899, his analogy to describe the molecular relationship between enzymes and substrates quickly gained …
Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards "cobot" technologies, this book …
The Diversification of Health
Complex problems and ambitious goals are often thought to become easier by enlarging and diversifying the group of experts dealing with them. As a result, these complex entities …
Implanted Minds
Intracerebral interventions raise particular ethical issues. For instance, attempts at replacing lost or altered brain cells with the help of stem cells or the therapeutic …
University Experiments in Interdisciplinarity – Obstacles and Opportunities
Interdisciplinarity is an inflationary concept in the discourses of higher education and science policy. Yet, some recent structural reforms in European and US universities reflect …
Past and Present Energy Societies
Abundant, salutary, problematic - energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on …
Tensions and Convergences – Technological and Aesthetic Transformations of Society
This book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. …