Hub Zwart

Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Peter Eduard

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Gemma Revuelta

Pompeu Fabra University

Sheena Laursen

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Agnes Allansdottir

University of Siena

Han Somsen

Tilburg University

Anna Meijknecht

Tilburg University

Alexandre Quintanilha

Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Vincent Torre

University of Genoa

Nicole Kronberger

Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Júlio Santos

i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto

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Radboud University Nijmegen

University College Cork

APC Microbiome Institute

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement

Université Paris-Saclay

Wageningen University & Research

Inserm

Radboud University Medical Center

Utrecht University

Sorbonne Université

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Knowledge, Power and the Self: Preliminary Explorations

Library of ethics and applied philosophy (2017)

Hub Zwart

10.1007/978-3-319-65554-3_3

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Professional ethics and scholarly communication

Springer eBooks (2007)

Hub Zwart

Scholarly Communication

10.1007/1-4020-3180-7_8

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The symbolic order and the noosphere: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Lacan on technoscience and the future of the planet

International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (2022)

Hub Zwart

This paper presents a mutual confrontation of the oeuvres of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955) and Jacques Lacan (1901–1980), highlighting their relevance for the planetary challenges we are facing today. I will present their views on technoscience, environmental pollution and religious faith, focussing on human genomics as a case study. Both authors claim that technoscience reflects a tendency towards symbolisation: incorporating the biosphere (living nature) into the "symbolic order' (Lacan) or 'noosphere' (Teilhard). On various occasions, Lacan refers to Teilhard's concept of the hominization of the planet and their dialogue culminates in a 'final conversation' between Teilhard and Lacan in 1954, during a reception organised by the journal Psyché. I will conclude that the Teilhard-Lacan dialogue is highly relevant for current debates concerning the Anthropocene, as a moment of global awakening and global crisis. Processes of hominization allowed humans to become literate beings, littering the planet as well: humans as literate litterers. Whereas Teilhard argues that technoscience and self-directed evolution are about to culminate in what he refers to as point Omega, Lacan rather stresses the hazards involved in this optimistic desire towards all-encompassing synthesis, unification and fulfilment.

Technoscience

10.1080/21692327.2022.2093775

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Biomaterials, biomimesis and human enhancement.

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Statements, declarations and the problems of ethical expertise (Editorial)

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The four discourses and the Moebius-ring: Lacan’s diagnostics of contemporary technoscience

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The future of ELSA genomics

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Science and Suspicion: Maxim Gorky’s Children of the Sun as a Critical Mirror in Times of COVID-19

Law Culture and the Humanities (2020)

Hub Zwart

From a contemporary perspective, the current COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly an extraordinary event, but historically speaking pandemics are periodically recurring phenomena and intimately connected with socio-economic processes of globalisation. Therefore, history may serve as a backdrop for coming to terms with the present, by comparing current challenges with previous events that are both sufficiently similar and sufficiently different. In this article, the COVID-19 crisis will be assessed from a humanities perspective, using a pandemic drama entitled Children of the Sun (written by Russian novelist and playwright Maxim Gorky in 1905) as a critical mirror. In Gorky’s play, the pandemic as a disruptive event reveals a number of tensions and divides, between science and society first of all, but also between socio-economic classes and subcultures, which become interconnected through globalisation but evolve at an uneven pace. Thus, Gorky’s drama addresses a number of themes that are still relevant for COVID-19 controversies, such as the relationship between basic and applied research, global competition and vaccine development, science and suspicion, and the socio-economic unevenness between the global North and the global South.

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10.1177/1743872120968053

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What's in a genome? Self-perception in a new age

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Bottom Up Ethics - Neuroenhancement In Education And Employment

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2018)

Imre Bárd George Gaskell Agnes Allansdottir Rui Vieira da Cunha Peter Eduard

This is the accompanying dataset for the publication Bottom-up Ethics - Neuroenhancement in Education and Employment (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-018-9366-7). The data was collected during the European Commision-funded NERRI project, which sought to facilitate Europe-wide discussion about the ethical acceptability and social desirability of neuroenhancement. We conducted an online survey with over 1000 respondents from 10 European countries and the United States. The survey included two contrastive vignette experiments and 14 attitude questions, which were derived from a series of public engagement activities. The SPSS dataset contains 50 variables, capturing sociodemographic indicators, the experimental manipulations, the 14 attitude statements, and two scales constructed using PCA. Paper abstract: Neuroenhancement involves the use of neurotechnologies to improve cognitive, affective or behavioural functioning, where these are not judged to be clinically impaired. Questions about enhancement have become one of the key topics of neuroethics over the past decade. The current study draws on in-depth public engagement activities in ten European countries giving a bottom-up perspective on the ethics and desirability of enhancement. This informed the design of an online contrastive vignette experiment that was administered to representative samples of 1000 respondents in the ten countries and the United States. The experiment investigated how the gender of the protagonist, his or her level of performance, the efficacy of the enhancer and the mode of enhancement affected support for neuroenhancement in both educational and employment contexts. Of these, higher efficacy and lower performance were found to increase willingness to support enhancement. A series of commonly articulated claims about the individual and societal dimensions of neuroenhancement were derived from the public engagement activities. Underlying these claims, multivariate analysis identified two social values. The Societal/Protective highlights counter normative consequences and opposes the use of enhancers. The Individual/Proactionary highlights opportunities and supports use. For most respondents these values are not mutually exclusive. This suggests that for many neuroenhancement is viewed simultaneously as a source of both promise and concern.

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