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Alfred Nordmann

Title: Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Professor Emeritus, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Department: Philosophy
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de
Resources: TU-Darmstadt website
Nordmann photo

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
 
Recent Edited Volumes

Challenge the conventional. Create the exceptional. No Limits.

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