Completed and Follow-up Projects since 2005:

The Phenomenology of Growth: Philosophy and Epistemic History of Productive Life. (Habilitation in Philosophy, Univ. of Stuttgart 2006, to be published 2010 at transcript verlag: Bielefeld, Germany).

Ethical consequences of future plant breeding. In: PLANTS FOR THE FUTURE. Stake-holder Proposal for the Strategic Research Agenda 2025, including Draft Action Plan 2010. European Union, EPSO and Europa Bio (2005), p. 88-92 (online-publ. as pdf, launched 12.08.2005).

Conferences organized in 2006:

Neurophilosophy: Emotional Intelligence, Gender and Elites

International Conference accomp. the Templeton-Research-Lectures Frankfurt in coop. with the Evangel. Akademie Arnoldshain (Dr. G. Ulshöfer). May 12th 2006, Frankfurt/M..

Main Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Hagner (Science Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland): “The history of brain studies”.
The given lectures and additionally invited papers from psychologists, sociologists, philosophers and historians working on emotions and sexuality (e.g. Prof. Dr. Robert Nye, Oregon State University, USA, PRof. Dr. Gerald Matthews, Univ. of Cincinatti, USA, Prof. Dr. Eva Illouz, Hebrew University, Israel, and Prof. Dr. William Reddy, Duke University, USA) has been published under the title “Sexualized Brains” in Oct. 2008 at MIT Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries

International Conference to History of accomp. the EU-Project “Digital System for the Con-sultation and the Study of the Archives of Renaissance Technical Drawing and Early Modern Age” in the Program “Culture 2000” (Universities of Florence, Italy; Sofia, Bulgary; Frank-furt/M., Germany). July 6-8th 2006, Frankfurt/M., in coop. with Dr. G. Engel, Dr. C. Zittel (Frankfurt/M.) and Prof. Dr. Romano Nanni (Director of the Leonardo da Vinci Museum, Vinci, Italy). English publication (title: Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries) at Brill Publishers (Leiden) as a Volume of “Intersections” in 2008.

Art Project: The Artificial Tree, launched by the company Regionalpark RheinMain. An iron tree-sculpture of 19 meters height, with a visitor platform on top, will be build in the open landscape near the river Main at Frankfurt (project volume: EUR 250.000). My job is a) to consult the officials in dealing with the different interest groups and the public concerning technology and the arts, and b) to write the both cultural historical and scientific text, the tree “itself” narrates on the visitor platform. The project will be finished in October 2006.

Conferences organized/co-organized in 2007 and 2008:

Project-Management of the Frankfurt Templeton Research Lectures (TRL), year II (2007), topic “The human Person (II): Biofact or Artefact?”

Invited speakers:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Christaller (Robotics; Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, St. Augustin) and Prof. Dr. Klaus Emmrich (Biomedicine; Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Research, Leipzig)
(see www.trl-frankfurt.de for details)

Both key note speakers discussed the question: Who makes the “better” human - Life Science or Technology?

Conference: The human Person, Frankfurt am Main, 11. July 2007

Invited Speakers: Prof. Dr. Christoph Hubig, Dr. Jutta Weber, Prof. Dr. Achim Stephan, Prof. Dr. Frank Emmrich, Prof. Dr. Thomas Christaller

Conference Co-Organisation 2008:

Conference: IT Innovations 2008 in the Middle East

Workshop in Cognition and Cognitive Systems (17 Dec 2008)

United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain (UAE)

DAAD-Stipendium Kurzzeitdozentur/Visiting Professorship (Philosophie) China, Technical University of Dalian (bewilligt/accepted 2008)

Project: Der Baum des Lebens - The tree of live. (April 2008; submitted to the Volkswagen-Foundation, in coop. with Dr. Louise Röska-Hardy and Marianne Schark, rejected)

Project: Universität.Innovation.Raum (subm. Jan. 2008; in coop. with 8 professors of Goethe University, internal funding, rejected)

FUTURE PROJECTS

Project: Art et neuroscience (submitted 2008; con Dr. Stéphane Dumas, Prof. Marc Jimenez; Univ. Paris I, under review)

Project: Autism - Epistemological analysis of abnormal behavior at the interface of biomedicine, robotics and social theory (in coop. with ETH Zurich and Vienna University, in prep.)

Project: DIe Zukunft der technischen Welt. In Kooperation mit der Kunsthochschule Köln (Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer) und der Universität Bochum (Inst. f. Medienwissenschaften; Prof.es Dr.es Stefan Rieger und Erich Hörl). Kick-off Konferenz 28-30. Oktober 2010 in Bochum.

Mitglied im Programmkomittee zur Vorbereitung des Jahreskongresses 2011 der Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Wien.