Education 

PhD, Hamburg, 1986

Research Interests 

My research focuses on not only how the sciences forge and ascertain agreement between theory and reality but also how the technosciences produce working knowledge through the acquisition and demonstration of capacities of control. I often consider the philosophical significance of developing theories to describe nature not only in physics, chemistry, or biology, but also in synthetic chemistry, materials science, biomedical or nanotechnological research. My research often addresses the ways that we value science and technoscience now, and the ambivalent legacy of Enlightenment ideals after the invention of the knowledge society. I often examine the relation of art and technology and of representing and intervening – with priority given to principles of composing things in works of technological art.

A Few Selected Publications (for a full list see my TU-Darmstadt page)

 

Books

• Technikphilosophie zur Einführung (Hamburg: Junius, 2008)
• Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

 

Recent Edited Volumes

• with Armin Grunwald und Martin Sand (Ed). Hermeneutics, History and Technology – The Call of the Future (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023)
• with Daria Bylieva (Ed.) Technologies in a Multilingual Environment (Cham: Springer, 2023)
• with Jim Klagge (Ed.) Movements of Thought: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Diary 1930-1932 and 1936-1937 (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
• with Cheryce von Xylander (Ed.) Vollendete Tatsachen: Vom endgültig Vorläufigen und vorläufig Endgültigen in der Wissenschaft (Bielefeld: transcript, 2022)
• with Daria Bylieva (Ed.) Sonderheft/special issue In the Beginning was the Word – The Word as a Technical Artefact (Technology and Language, Bd. 2:1, 2021)
• with Daria Bylieva, Olga Shipunova, Violetta Volkova (Ed.) Knowledge in the Information Society (Springer, 2020)