Lara Huber

Lara Huber (* 1973 in Ruit ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Born 1973 in Ruit im Kraichgau, studied philosophy and contemporary history in Bamberg and Tübingen; In 2004 she did her doctorate with Günter Figal as Dr. phil. at the University of Tübingen with a thesis on phenomenology by Maurice Merleau-Ponty . Afterwards she was a post-doc scholarship holder in the DFG graduate college bioethics at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences of the University of Tübingen. From 2005 to 2011 she worked at the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine (GTE) at the University of Mainz . 2011–2012 she was a research assistant at the TU Braunschweig.

Work areas

Philosophy of science and technology , with a focus on procedural standardization, digitization of scientific spaces and visualization techniques (e.g. neuroimaging), as well as phenomenology and ethics . Lara Huber conducts research on the philosophy of psychology / life sciences, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience.

Selected publications

• The “free will” in the laboratory: On the complexity of basic anthropological constants and the power of interpretation of experimental scientific strategies. In: L. Kovacz and C. Brand (eds.): Forschungspraxis Bioethik, Alber 2011 (in press)
• LONI & Co: The Epistemic Specificity of Digital Knowledge Spaces in Cognitive Neuroscience. Reports for the History of Science 34 (2011).
• “Operationalization - Standardization - Normalization. The Production and Visualization of Data in Cognitive Neuroscience ”. In: Devi Dumbadze et al. (Ed.): Knowledge and Criticism. Contemporary positions (pp. 167–191). transcript: Bielefeld 2009
• Add. with L. Kutschenko. Medicine in a neurocentric world: About the explanatory power of neuroscientific models in medical research and practice (Editorial notes). Medicine Studies 1,4 (2009): 307-313.
• Imaging the brain - visualizing "pathological entities"? Searching for reliable protocols for fMRI within Psychiatry and their impact on the understanding of psychiatric diseases, In: Poesis & Praxis. International Journal of Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment 6,1 / 2 (2009), 27-41.
• Exceptionalism "revisited" or: From naturalization through mechanization. In: Oliver Müller, Jens Clausen and Giovanni Maio (eds.): The technical brain. Neurotechnologies as a challenge for ethics and anthropology (pp. 118–136). Mentis: Paderborn 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Lara Huber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the seminar for philosophy at the TU Braunschweig
• WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) The philosophical radio of September 21, 2018: How do you determine normality?