Böcker i Studies on Culture, Technology and Education-serien

In a knowledge-based society education and technologies appear as the decisive driving-forces of the development. The considerations in this work extrapolate a multidisciplinary approach to the present conditions of education, focusing on concerns such as the significance of technological development and the moral agency of technologies in the field of education.

In the first part of the book Ewa Binczyk discusses postulates that have been formulated in response to the problem of the unwanted consequences of the practical success of technoscience (deriving mainly from science and technology studies). In the second part Tomasz Stepien analyses nanotechnology as example of technoscience development and presents the nano-assessment framework.

The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The authors analyse the political process of transformation within these two member states of the EU and exemplify their plurality and specificity.

The presented analyses are focusing on three predominant theoretical approaches in the philosophy of science and technology: technoscience (STS), technology assessment (TA) and converging technologies (NBIC). On this base are extrapolated the coordinates of the heuristics of technosciences.

Die Frage nach der politischen Verfassung der Gesellschaft als Leitmotiv der politischen Theorie gehort neben Kulturwissenschaft und Philosophie zu den Hauptthemen im Gesamtwerk von Anton Hilckman. Den Hintergrund dafur bilden die dramatischen Ereignisse in Deutschland und Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts. Anton Hilckman als politisch engagierter Zeitzeuge nahm direkt an diesen Auseinandersetzungen teil. In diesem Zusammenhang entwickelt er die Theorie des politischen Foderalismus als eine Alternative fur Deutschland und Europa gegenuber den totalitaren Ideologien des Kommunismus und Nationalsozialismus, die er als die eigentlichen politischen Pseudo-Religionen herausstellt. Gleichzeitig pladiert er fur eine politische Bildung der Burgergesellschaft als Grundlage politischer Mundigkeit.

This book concerns the border area between philosophy and social sciences. To explain the status of social sciences, not only cognitive involvement of theory is necessary, but also ontic. Hence epistemology and ontology need to be combined in meta-reflection on knowledge about society. Hence my proposition is social onto-epistemology.