prof. dr. Hans Radder

Specialization

Philosophy of science and technology.

Office hours

I am quite frequently present in my office, room 13A-32.

Research

Principal research topics are: scientific observation and experimentation; scientific realism; historical, epistemological and ontological issues concerning (scientific) concepts; the normative and political significance of (recent) science and technology; the commodification of academic research.

Teaching

Teaching: introductory, intermediate and advanced lectures and seminars on a variety of topics in the philosophy of science and technology.

10 selected publications

(1) Hans Radder, ed., The commodification of academic research: science and the modern university (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).
(2) -------, ‘Hoe herwin je “de ziel van de wetenschap”? Academisch onderzoek en universitaire kenniseconomie’, Academische Boeken Gids, nr. 75 (juli 2009), 8-13. (digitally available at: http://www.academischeboekengids.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_artikel&id=836).
(3) -------, ‘Science, technology and the science-technology relationship’, and ‘Why technologies are inherently normative’, in A.W.M. Meijers, ed., Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009), 83-109 and 909-942.
(4) -------, ‘Critical philosophy of technology: the basic issues’, Social Epistemology, 22 (1), 2008, 51-70.
(5) -------, The World Observed/The World Conceived (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).
(6) -------, ‘Exploiting abstract possibilities: A critique of the concept and practice of product patenting’, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 17, 2004, 275-291.
(7) -------, ed., The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003); digital edition available at: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=pittpress;cc=pittpress;view=toc;idno=31735047065523.
(8) -------, 'Psychology, physicalism and real physics', Theory & Psychology, 11, 2001, 773-784.
(9) -------, In and about the World: Philosophical Studies of Science and Technology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996).
(10) -------, ‘Heuristics and the generalized correspondence principle’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 42, 1991, 195-226.

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CV

Hans Radder holds degrees in physics (1975: MSc., from VU University Amsterdam) and in philosophy (1978: MA, cum laude, from the University of Amsterdam; 1984: PhD, cum laude, from VU University Amsterdam). From 1980 through 1987 he co-edited the philosophical journal Krisis. He has published several books and edited volumes and many articles. Currently, he is professor of philosophy of science and technology in the Faculty of Philosophy at the VU University Amsterdam. He is a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Bijzondere leerstoel

Filosofie van wetenschap en technologie