Zur PersonBiography and BibliographyI. Personal DataNAME: Helmut F. Spinner. II. Scientific Status and Former Positions at the University of Karlsruhe/Germanya) Professor of Philosophy, specialized in Philosophy of Science and
Technology (since 1987). III. Memberships in Academic Associationsa) Allgemeine Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Deutschland. d) Karlsruher Universitätsgesellschaft. IV. BiographyBIRTH: January 28th, 1937, Offenburg/Germany. V. University Teaching and Research Activities1970-1987 at the Universities of Mannheim, Bamberg, Gießen, Heidelberg,
and Marburg (all Germany); PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ORIENTATION:Intellectual development from Critical Rationalism (Popper) to Epistemological Pluralism (Feyerabend) and Scientific Cognitivism. Interested in all questions about >knowledge of all sorts, in any quantity and quality< within and beyond science (e. g., media). Interdisciplinary work in the intersections of philosophy of science and technology, sociology, economics, psychology, cultural studies, cognitive sciences. MAIN FIELDS:Philosophy of Science and Technology; Interdisciplinary Science Studies; Philosophy of the Information Age; Science Policy and University Studies; Institutions of Higher Learning; Cognitive Technology (>Wissenstechniken<); Order of Knowledge; Information Society. General Theory of Knowledge. Cognitive Division of Labour. RESEARCH TOPICS, CONTRIBUTIONS:A new theory of dual rationality (>Doppelvernunft<); investigatons into the order of knowledge (>Wissensordnung<; Cognitive Order in comparison to Legal and Economic Orders) for all cognitive realms of society; a new theory of knowledge-styles (Erkenntnisstile); scientific and societal problem solving; scientific ethos; information ethics; internal (within science), external (between science and society) and intergenerational (by teaching) scientific communication; public science and science journalism; information and communication technologies (basic research and applications, technology assessment); institutional studies about modern (in Germany: Humboldtian) University and science policy. RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS: a) Dual Rationality Structures of Science, Society and History (supported
by the DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT). VI. Organization of Conferences(1) From Industrial Society to Information Society (1986, supported
by the FREE ACADEMY, Berlin/ Germany). (4) Aging and Death in the Modern World (1996, supported by the FREE
ACADEMY, Berlin /Germany). VII. Bibliography (books only)- Pluralismus als Erkenntnismodell (1974); - Begründung, Kritik und Rationalität (1977); - Popper und die Politik (1978); - Ist der kritische Rationalismus am Ende? (1982); - Das >wissenschaftliche Ethos< als Sonderethik des Wissens (1985); - Problemlösungsprozesse (1987ff.); - Die Wissensordnung (1994); - Der ganze Rationalismus einer Welt von Gegensätzen (1994); - Die Architektur der Informationsgesellschaft (1998); - Bausteine zu einer neuen Informationsethik (co-authors Michael Nagenborg and Karsten Weber). - Knowledge-based Problem-Solving Process (2002, in print). Zurück: Startseite Kapitelübersicht
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