Continental Philosophy Of Technoscience

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Coming to Terms with Technoscience
	Continental Philosophy as a Research Program
	Hegelian Dialectics
	Dialectical Materialism
	Psychoanalysis of Technoscience
	Heideggerian Phenomenology
	From Dialectics to Phenomenology and Back
	Convergence
	References
Chapter 2: Dialectics of Technoscience
	Genesis of Dialectics
	Dialectics of Technoscience: First Outline
	The Oblique Perspective
	The Inherent Negativity of Technoscience
	Outline of a Methodology
	Hegel’s Logic: The Interaction Between Philosophy (as a Science) and Science
	Dialectics and the Real
	The Chemical Process as a Syllogism
	From Syllogism to System
	Extrapolations
	Philosophy of Nature
	Polarity
	Domestication Domesticated
	Planet Earth as a Terrestrial Organism
	Hegel and the End of Evolution
	Dialectics of Technoscience
	References
Chapter 3: Dialectical Materialism
	Introduction
	Fragments on Method
	Anton Pannekoek: A Marxist View on the History of Astronomy
	Friedrich Engels and the Technoscientific Reproducibility of Life
	Dialectics of Science and Nature as a Research Program
	Engels’ Dialectical Materialist Rereading of Hegel
	Dialectics of Science and Nature
	From Bourgeois Metaphysics to Dialectics of Science
	Dialectical Materialism Versus Bourgeois Epistemology in Twentieth Century Marxism
	From Artificial Proteins to Synthetic Cells
	References
Chapter 4: Psychoanalysing Technoscience
	Psychoanalysis and the Psychic Machine
	Gaston Bachelard: The Inherent Dialectics of Technoscience
	Psychoanalysis and Dialectics
	The Year 1953
	Jacques Lacan: Formalising the Hegelian Syllogism
	Discourse of the Master
	The Emancipation of S2 – The Case History of Ivan Pavlov
	University Discourse and Its Vicissitudes
	A First Case History: The Majorana Particle
	Discourse of the Analyst
	Language and the Tormented Subject ($)
	Second Case History: Malaria Research
	Third Case History: The Nude Mouse
	References
Chapter 5: Louis Althusser: Science and Ideology
	Rereading Marx
	Practising Dialectics: Active Reading (First Moment)
	Symptomatic Reading (the Second Moment)
	Reading Capital
	Reading Althusser
	The Specificity of a Marxist Dialectic of Technoscience
	Friedrich Engels on Marx and Lavoisier
	The Object of Knowledge, the Real Object and the Problematic of Technoscientific Appropriation
	The Spontaneous Philosophy of Science and the Experience of a Scientific Crisis
	Incorporating Althusser
	References
Chapter 6: Coming to Terms with Technoscience: The Heideggerian Way
	Introduction
	Heidegger on Method: Setting the Stage
	Heidegger’s Early Views on Method
	Heidegger’s Method after the Turn: First Exploration
	Heidegger’s Discourse on Method: On our Way Towards Technoscience
	Handling πράγματα: The Vicissitudes of Technoscientific Objects
	Laboratories as (Worldly – Unworldly) Settings
	Technoscience as a Global Research Enterprise
	Concluding Reflection: Is a Technoscience-Philosophy Dialogue Possible?
	References
Chapter 7: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Phenomenology of the Noosphere
	Introduction
	What Is Phenomenology?
	Teilhard de Chardin’s Views on Science, Technology and Evolution
	Case History: A Teilhardian Assessment of Human Genomics
	Teilhard as a Dialectical Thinker
	The Ascent of the Spirit and the Noosphere
	Teilhard and Lacan: From Skulls to Shells
	References
Chapter 8: Philosophy of Technoscience: From Cis-Continental to Trans-Continental
	Taking Stock: The Noumenal Turn in Technoscience
	The Technoscientific Revolution and its Summa
	Convergence
	Discourse of Capitalism
	Neo-Liberalism and Post-Truth
	References