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Bio-Technosciences in Philosophy: Challenges and Perspectives for Gender Studies in Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Susanne Lettow
Susanne Lettow*
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University of Paderborn
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Abstract

Since the 1960s the bio/technosciences have occupied a central place in philosophical thinking. The paper sets out three theoretical configurations embodying major challenges for today's gender studies in philosophy, since they raise an obstacle, each in its own way, to the discussion on implications of the bio/technosciences in the political field and the area of gender theory: firstly naturalism in the field of the philosophy of science; secondly the paradigm of applied ethics; and thirdly the discourse of philosophical anthropology that has been reactivated in philosophical debates about the bio/technosciences. To conclude, some of the future tasks will be mentioned which fall to gender studies in philosophy.

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Diogenes , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 127 - 137
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Copyright © ICPHS 2010

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