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2016
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(2016): A Critical Social Systems View of the Internet. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (4), S. 471-500. DOI: 10.1177/0048393107307664
Abstract: The article discusses principles that form part of evolutionary systems thinking in social sciences and humanities. It is argued that introducing the concept of self-organization relates agency and structures in a way that makes it possible to take up certain features of Critical Theory by which it can meet the demands for a critical social science. These principles are applied to the question of whether there is convergence or divergence in and by means of the Internet. It will be clarified that the Internet is basically a social system and that it is a subsystem of the larger and overarching system of the whole society. It will be shown how the Internet can be perceived as a possible trigger for societal developments bringing about fundamental change in the nature of society. Thus the article cuts across philosophical, system theoretical, social theoretical, sociology of technology, and information society theory considerations.
Keywords: agency, critical Theory, Disziplin, dynamic, epistemology, Evolution, Handlungsmacht, information society, Informations- & Kommunikationstechnik, Internet, Kritische Theorie, mechanism, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Philosophie, Realtechnik, revolution, Selbstorganisation, self-organization, social system, social systems, soziales System, Soziologie, STS, Technik 2015
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(2015): The Social Value of Non-Deferential Belief. In: Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (1), S. 131-151. DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2015.1049625
Abstract: We often prefer non-deferential belief to deferential belief. In the last twenty years, epistemology has seen a surge of sympathetic interest in testimony as a source of knowledge. We are urged to abandon epistemic individualism' and the ideal of the autonomous knower' in favour of social epistemology'. In this connection, you might think that a preference for non-deferential belief is a manifestation of vicious individualism, egotism, or egoism. I shall call this the selfishness challenge to preferring non-deferential belief. The aim of this paper is to meet the selfishness challenge by arguing that non-deferential belief is (pro tanto) socially valuable.
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(2015): On the distinction between distinction and division. In: Technoetic Arts 13 (3), S. 245-251. DOI: 10.1386/tear.13.3.245_1
Abstract: In this article I discuss the use of distinctions as a method for reasoning. First I trace the role of distinctions in three different theories: the formal calculus of George Spencer Brown, the constructivist biology of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, and Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems. In the second part, play is used as an example to illustrate the concept. In particular, I contrast walking through a series of distinctions with traditional ways of argumentation based on definitions. Finally, I hint at the role of distinctions in a metaphysical sense.
2010
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(2010): Foundational Paradigms of Social Sciences. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (2), S. 211-249. DOI: 10.1177/0048393109355294
2009
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(2009): Geschichte versus Genealogie. Warum die Debatte um sozialwissenschaftliche Reflexivitat die Ethnomethodologie vergass. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Online Journal) 10 (3)
Abstract: This paper addresses the almost complete disappearance of ethnomethodological approaches from the reflexivity debate in social-scientific theory and methodology since the 1980s. This disappearance is remarkable because many of the tropes and questions characterizing the debate around reflexivity had already been articulated in ethnomethodology. The main reason for this neglect, it is argued, is the productive effect it had, as it helped later debates find answers to the epistemological challenge of postmodern approaches entering sociological discourse from the direction of anthropology and science and technology studies. Those answers could never have stabilized in the presence of the fundamental ethnomethodological presupposition that reflexivity is an ontological feature of social reality. The paper ends with a number of suggestions concerning a revision of reflexivity in the social sciences, highlighting the performative aspects of social meaning, especially social-scientific meaning. Es wird die Frage nach den Grunden fur das offensichtliche Vergessen ethnomethodologischer Diskussionen in der Debatte um Reflexivitat in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorie und Methodologie seit den 1980er Jahren gestellt. Dieses Vergessen ist deswegen erstaunlich, da in der Ethnomethodologie viele der spater aufkommenden Fragen bereits formuliert und diskutiert worden waren. Das Hauptargument lautet, dass dieses Vergessen einen epistemisch produktiven Effekt hatte, weil es spateren Diskursen ermoglichte, Antworten auf die epistemologische Herausforderung durch postmoderne Argumentationsfiguren zu finden, die hauptsachlich aus der Anthropologie Eingang in den sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs fanden. Ware die fundamentale ethnomethodologische Argumentationsfigur, dass Reflexivitat ein ontologisches Merkmal sozialer Realitat ist, berucksichtigt worden, hatten sich jene Antworten nicht stabilisieren konnen. Abschliessend werden Vorschlage zu einer Neubestimmung von Reflexivitat in den Sozialwissenschaften gemacht, die die performativen Aspekte sozialen Sinns - auch sozialwissenschaftlichen Sinns - berucksichtigt. zitiert von 2
2008
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(2008) : Human-robot interaction In: Kelsey, Sigrid; St. Amant, Kirk (Hg.): Handbook of research on computer mediated communication., Vols. 1-2: Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference/IGI Global, S. 855-867. Online verfügbar unter http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2008-09375-061&site=ehost-live
DOI: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2008-09375-061&site=ehost-live Abstract: Some people regard the personal mobile robot as a candidate for the next digital revolution as it might become a future ubiquitous tool and everyday partner of humans. This new 'socio-emotional' robot is supposed to conduct dialogue, to develop social competencies and to support users in everyday life. In this chapter, I sketch out the epistemological, ontological and techno-material groundings of personal service robotics which is based on new models of human-machine interaction like caregiver-infant or pet-owner. I discuss the conversational paradigm in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with its problematic concepts of 'pre-given' social mechanisms, uninformed users as well as its new understanding of sociality as service. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
1990
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(1990): Über Regeln der sprachlichen Kommunikation und die Schwierigkeiten, nichtberichtbares Wissen zu erfassen. In: Bulletin der Schweizer Psychologen 11 (4), S. 3-12
Abstract: Es wird erortert, wie verhaltenswirksame, aber nichtberichtbare Regeln erfasst und erlernt werden konnen. Als Losungsheuristiken werden zum einen die von Garfinkel vorgeschlagenen "Krisenexperimente" vorgeschlagen, zum anderen ein Verfahren, bei dem die invarianten Merkmale wiederholter Verhaltensablaufe als Basis fur Aussagen uber notwendige minimale Wissensvoraussetzungen dienen. Anschliessend werden Probleme im Zusammenhang mit dem Erlernen verhaltenswirksamer Regeln bzw. prozeduralen Wissens erortert. Da traditionelle Lernkonzepte nicht geeignet erscheinen, eine brauchbare Erklarung dafur zu liefern, wie sich dieser Wissenserwerb im Alltag vollziehen konnte, wird eine Konzeption des Lernprozesses vorgeschlagen, in der dem Wiedererkennen von Situationsaspekten eine zentrale Rolle zugeschrieben wird.
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