Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

Hub Zwart (1960) studied philosophy and psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen, worked as a research associate at the Centre for Bioethics in Maastricht (1988-1992) and defended his thesis in 1993. In 2000 he became full Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Science RU Nijmegen and in 2018 he was appointed as Dean of Erasmus School of Philosophy (Erasmus University Rotterdam). He has published 15 books and  over 100 academic papers. In his research he develops a continental philosophical perspective on contemporary technoscience. Special attention is given to genres of the imagination (novels, plays, poetry) in research and education.

• 1 Introduction: Coming to terms with technoscience.- 2 Dialectics of Technoscience.- 3 Dialectical materialism.- 4 Psychoanalysing technoscience.- 5 Louis Althusser: science and ideology.- 6 Coming to terms with technoscience: the Heideggerian way.- 7 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s phenomenology of the noosphere.- 8 Philosophy of technoscience: from cis-continental to trans-continental.