Call for Abstracts – Planned Volume on Call for Interferences: Science, Medicine and Technology
The era of strictly demarcated sciences is over. Over the years, changing social values, modern technologies, but also scientific misconduct and demands for emancipation based on diversity have led to the fact that science has become a multidisciplinary but also increasingly interwoven institution marked by the effects of science in the 20th/21st century. The present bias is particularly evident in the institutionalization of knowledge and content from the humanities and the natural sciences and technology, which are in part still strictly separated and not automatically related to each other. This lack of contextualization and intertwining of nature, culture, technology, society, and gender theory can be illustrated by a number of problematic examples: Crash test dummies that only represent men and make cars all the more unsafe for women; toxic cultures of masculinity in engineering courses that make it almost impossible for women to build careers and reveal a serious lack of female role models; racist or sexist algorithms that overwhelm the increasingly important AI and fuel resentment; or supposedly glorious inventions by men for women, such as the Pinky Gloves released in 2021, that reveal a sometimes disastrous picture of gender stereotyping. All these examples clearly show that there is an urgent need to link the cultural sciences and humanities, which have been strictly separated, with the natural, technical, medical, information and engineering sciences. However, these experiences also show how strong the influences of social, political, economic and societal factors are, which also have an unconscious effect on the natural and technical sciences and their results. This modern change therefore confirms all the more the establishment of an interlocking perspective and instructions for action for the scientific enterprise. An appropriate culture/expansion of discourse makes it possible to show how research in the natural, technical, information, and engineering sciences can be seen and evaluated in a multiple and constantly changing world in the context of society, politics, the environment, technology, and gender. Science is no longer a homogeneous and awe-inspiring entity that can sustain itself. It is increasingly criticized and confronted with demands to open up and to represent all aspects of social life in an interconnected way. There is therefore a need for other interfaces and interconnections that drive this world of research, transform it, make it usable, and build it in a future-oriented way. With this volume these entanglements of sciences will be demonstrated by at least four different sections that follow to the fields of:
- The entanglements of Philosophy, Gender Studies and Political Sciences and the field of medicine
- The entanglements of Ethics, Philosophy, Gender Studies and the research of Artificial Intelligence.
- Going further with the entanglements of Philosophy, Cyberfeminism, Ecofeminism and their interrelation to other spheres of Science and Society
- Concluding with demonstrations of intersections between Philosophy and the fields of Political Sciences and lived practices in Science- and Technology Studies/Masculinity Studies
These four majors show the new interrelation of Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies that are no longer separated.
During a workshop at Paderborn University in November 2024, we had the opportunity to discuss these interactions between the humanities, natural sciences, technology, medicine and other applied sciences with twelve scholars from different disciplines and countries. The results of the talks and discussions will now be presented in a volume and will be extended by concepts of interested scholars. We plan to publish a collective volume on scholars research concepts and ideas on the intertwining of these formerly strictly separated fields. We seeking for interested scholars who want to shape their field of research in order to improve the academic world through multivisional ideas and interdisciplinarity, which has not yet been done in their fields. Submissions are welcome from the following fields, but are not limited to: philosophy, gender studies, engineering, medicine, information and computer science, science and technology studies, ecology, economy, Science- and Tech-Diplomacy and AI research.
Papers may be based on, but are not limited to, the following suggested topics:
– Research on scientific entanglements that illustrates or explores the intersection of philosophy, gender, technology, ecology, economics, and STEM fields.
– Research on female philosophers in this intersectional field.
– Research on possible areas of adaptation and expansion of science transfer or science practice that have not yet been sufficiently considered and that have the potential to expand research areas such as Science- and Technology Diplomacy; artificial intelligence; ecofeminism, etc.
Interested applicants should write a 300-400 word abstract (including name, academic degree, affiliation, contact information, and a brief CV) and submit it by April 15th, 2025 to felix.grewe@uni-paderborn.de. Abstracts and articles should be submitted in English.
Feedback on the submitted abstracts will be given until May 12th, 2025.
The approved abstracts should then be elaborated to an article of 5000 to 7000 words incl. bibliography. Submission deadline of the articles: September 1st, 2025.
For further questions please contact us via: felix.grewe@uni-paderborn.de
Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
Felix Grewe M.A.
Paderborn University
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
Germany