Commentary to “Practicing Dialectics of Technoscience During the Anthropocene” by Hub Zwart

Hub Zwart’s article is about the idea—and the practice—of an embedded philosophy of science, that is, a philosophy participating in and at the same time reflecting about the current state of the sciences facing the Anthropocene, to which I am very sympathetic. There are, however, two caveats . The f...

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Published inFoundations of science Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 981 - 985
Main Author Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2022
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Anthropocene
Commentary
Dialectics
Education
Epistemology
Laboratories
Mathematical Logic and Foundations
Methodology of the Social Sciences
Molecular biology
Philosophers
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Scientists
Synthetic biology
Natural contract (Serres)
Relation between philosophy and science
Historical epistemology
Philosophy and spontaneous philosophy of scientists (Althusser)
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Summary:Hub Zwart’s article is about the idea—and the practice—of an embedded philosophy of science, that is, a philosophy participating in and at the same time reflecting about the current state of the sciences facing the Anthropocene, to which I am very sympathetic. There are, however, two caveats . The first is that participation is always in danger to end up in a more or less uncritical eulogy, in the present case of synthetic biology. The second is that I have doubts about packing the historical path of scientific development into the Procrustes bed of Hegelian dialectics. This usually leads to one or the other form of teleology.
ISSN:1233-1821
1572-8471
DOI:10.1007/s10699-020-09773-y