Astrid E. Black
Astrid E. Schwarz (* 1963 ) is a German technology and environmental philosopher .
Life
She studied biology, philosophy and ethnology (diploma thesis in experimental ecology ). After completing her doctorate in 2000 at the Technical University of Munich , she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt (2002–2013), and subsequently lecturer at the ETH Zurich in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (2014–2017). She represented professorships at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2012/2013 natural philosophy) and at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (2010 philosophy) as well as visiting professorships at the Technical University of Dalian (2012, 2013) and in Paris at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l ' Homme (2011). After completing her habilitation in Darmstadt in 2012 ( Venia legendi for philosophy), she has been teaching as professor for general technical science at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg since 2017 . As a technology and environmental philosopher, her research and teaching can be found in the interdisciplinary field of technology and science research (STS) and the newly emerging environmental humanities. In Cottbus, together with her colleagues from several faculties, she is developing a major in Environmental Humanities, which deals with the phenomenon of the mechanization of humans and the environment from various disciplinary perspectives. Students learn to deal with historical constellations, current practices and future visions of technology and the environment from a critical perspective. Popular terms such as climate change, anthropocene or technosphere are taken up, as are topics relating to energy transformation and digital society.
Fonts (selection)
- Water desert - microcosm - ecosystem. A story of the "conquest" of the water space . Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, ISBN 3-7930-9318-2 .
- as editor with Alfred Nordmann: The colorful garb of theory. Fourteen encounters with philosophizing researchers . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-495-48384-8 .
- With the art of measuring against the imagination: The expulsion of monsters from the watery desert . Lichtenberg Yearbook 2010, pp. 217–237. ISSN 0936-4242 .
- as editor with Angela Krewani: Images of 'True Nature'. Special issue AugenBlick. Marburger Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft 45, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/2235 .
- with Alfred Nordmann: "Here I am human, here I can be!" - Partaking in the nanoworld. NanoEthics 5, 2011, pp. 233-243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-011-0126-y
- with Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve, Alfred Nordmann: Matters if Interest: The objects of research in science and technoscience. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 42, 2011, pp. 365-383. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10838-011-9172-y
- The becoming of the Experimental Mode. Scientiae Studia 10, 2012, pp. 65-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-31662012000500004
- as editor with Kurt Jax : Ecology revisited. Reflecting on concepts, advancing science . Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 90-481-9743-0 .
- Experiments in practice . London 2014, ISBN 978-1-84893-485-6 .
- as editor with Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve and Alfred Nordmann: Research Objects in their Technological Setting . London 2017, ISBN 9781138331969 .
- as the author of “From 'Homo Faber' to 'Homo Hortensis': Gardening Techniques in the Anthropocene” in: Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene , Series: “Routledge Environmental Humanities”, edited by Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Duarte Rodrigues, Ana Simões and Davide Scarso, London 2019, ISBN 9780815346661 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The project: Chair of General Technical Science. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwarz, Astrid E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Black, Astrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |