Wolfgang Krohn

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Wolfgang Krohn (born July 10, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a German sociologist of technology and philosophy of science.

From 1992 to 2006 he was Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Science and Technology Research at Bielefeld University , since then emeritus. He studied philosophy and social science in Hamburg, Göttingen and Marburg. He did his doctorate in Hamburg under Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker with a thesis on The Formal Logic in Hegel's "Science of Logic". From 1971 on he worked in the von Weizsäcker department at the Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world in Starnberg. After the MPI was closed in 1981, Krohn switched to the university focus on science research at Bielefeld University.

His main research interests include investigations into the social conditions of the development of modern science (especially in the 1970s, see Edgar Zilsel ), the spread of experimental practices outside of the recognized institutions of science, theories of self-organization , and the investigation of aesthetic qualities in science and technology (see: Scientific Aesthetics ). One of the best-known works of his early work is the thesis on the finalization of science (1972–73), written together with Gernot Böhme and Wolfgang van den Daele .

Publications (selection)

  • (Ed. Together with Günter Küppers ): Emergence: The emergence of order, organization and meaning , 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1992, ISBN 3-518-28584-X (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft No. 984).
  • (Ed. Together with Georg Krücken ): Risky technologies: Reflection and regulation. Introduction to social science risk research , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1993, ISBN 978-3-51828-698-2 (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft No. 1098).
  • Matthias Gross , Holger Hoffmann-Riem, Wolfgang Krohn: Real Experiments : Ecological Design Processes in the Knowledge Society , Bielefeld: transcript 2005, ISBN 978-3-89942-304-4 (Science Studies series).
  • Peter Weingart, Martin Carrier, Wolfgang Krohn: News from the knowledge society: Analysis of changes in science , Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2007, ISBN 978-3-938808-25-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see "Actually, a historian can do nothing other than sociological work": A conversation with Wolfgang Krohn. In: So to speak: Bielefeld student magazine at the Faculty of Sociology . Vol. 4, 1998, pp. 55–66, here p. 56.
  2. ↑ see report by Michael Drieschner at http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/staff/drieschner/beding.htm
  3. ↑ see again: So to speak: Bielefelder student magazine at the Faculty of Sociology . Vol. 4, 1998, on this p. 60ff.
personal data
SURNAME Krohn, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist of technology and philosopher of science
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg