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    Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge.Sabine Maasen - 2000 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Peter Weingart.
    This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge and will therefore be of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike.
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    Democratization of expertise?: exploring novel forms of scientific advice in political decision-making.Sabine Maasen & Peter Weingart (eds.) - 2005 - London: Springer.
    ‘Scientific advice to politics’, the ‘nature of expertise’, and the ‘relation between experts, policy makers, and the public’ are variations of a topic that currently attracts the attention of social scientists, philosophers of science as well as practitioners in the public sphere and the media. This renewed interest in a persistent theme is initiated by the call for a democratization of expertise that has become the order of the day in the legitimation of research funding. The new significance of ‘participation’ (...)
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    Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors.Sabine Maasen, Everett Mendelsohn & Peter Weingart - 1995 - Springer.
    not lie in the conceptual distinctions but in the perceived functions of metaphors and whether in the concrete case they are judged positive or negative. The ongoing debates reflect these concerns quite clearly~ namely that metaphors are judged on the basis of supposed dangers they pose and opportunities they offer. These are the criteria of evaluation that are obviously dependent on the context in which the transfer of meaning occurs. Our fundamental concern is indeed the transfer itself~ its prospects and (...)
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    Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality.Sabine Maasen, Wolfgang Prinz & Gerhard Roth (eds.) - 2003 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. Yet, performing and action and defining it are different matters. What counts as an action? When does it begin? Does the conscious desire to perform an action always precede the act? If not, is it really a voluntary action? This is a debate that crosses the boundaries of Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Social Science. This book brings (...)
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  5. On willing selves: neoliberal politics vis-à-vis the neuroscientific challenge.Sabine Maasen & Barbara Sutter (eds.) - 2007 - New York: Plagrave Macmiilan.
    Currently, the neurosciences challenge the concept of will to be scientifically untenable, specifying that it is our brain rather than our "self" that decides what we want to do. At the same time, we seem to be confronted with increasing possibilities and necessities of free choice in all areas of social life. Based on up-to-date (empirical) research in the social sciences and philosophy, the authors convened in this book address this seeming contradiction: By differentiating the physical, the psychic, and the (...)
     
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    Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects.Harald Atmanspacher & Sabine Maasen (eds.) - 2016 - Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
    A review of the scientific method. In the scientific method, results must be capable of being reproduced to be valid.
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  7. Self-help : the making of neoscocial selves in neoliberal society.Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter & Stefanie Duttweiler - 2007 - In Sabine Maasen & Barbara Sutter (eds.), On willing selves: neoliberal politics vis-à-vis the neuroscientific challenge. New York: Plagrave Macmiilan. pp. 25--52.
     
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  8. A view from elsewhere: The emergence of consciousness in multidisciplinary discourse.Sabine Maasen - 2003 - In Sabine Maasen, Wolfgang Prinz & Gerhard Roth (eds.), Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 323-359.
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    Techno-bio-politics. On Interfacing Life with and Through Technology.Benjamin Lipp & Sabine Maasen - 2022 - NanoEthics 16 (1):133-150.
    Technology takes an unprecedented position in contemporary society. In particular, it has become part and parcel of governmental attempts to manufacture life in new ways. Such ideas concerning the governance of life organize around the same contention: that technology and life are, in fact, highly interconnectable. This is surprising because if one enters the sites of techno-scientific experimentation, those visions turn out to be much frailer and by no means “in place” yet. Rather, they afford or enforce constant interfacing work, (...)
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    Responsible Research? Dilemmata der Integration gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Perspektiven in naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramme (Einleitung).Cornelius Borck, Veronika Lipphardt, Sabine Maasen, Ruth Müller & Michael Penkler - 2018 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41 (3):215-221.
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    Human Brain Project: Ethics Management statt Prozeduralisierung von Reflexivität?Sabine Maasen - 2018 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41 (3):222-237.
    Human Brain Project: Ethics Management or Proceduralization of Reflexivity? Everywhere, the reflexivity and responsibility of research and innovation is called for – the neurosciences being no exception. Undesirable side effects of scientific‐technical developments should be recognized early on and opportunities for participation by non‐scientific actors should be made available. In addition to the well‐known reflective programs such as Technology Assessment, Public Understanding of Science, Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of Science, Science Communication and Citizen Science, a new program is (...)
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  12. Introduction : reviving a sociology of willing selves.Sabine Maasen & Barbara Sutter - 2007 - In Sabine Maasen & Barbara Sutter (eds.), On willing selves: neoliberal politics vis-à-vis the neuroscientific challenge. New York: Plagrave Macmiilan.
     
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    9. Inducing Interdisciplinarity: Irresistible Infliction? The Example of a Research Group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research , Bielefeld, Germany.Sabine Maasen - 2000 - In Peter Weingart & Nico Stehr (eds.), Practising Interdisciplinarity. University of Toronto Press. pp. 173-193.
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  14. (1 other version)Neurosociety ahead? Debating free will in the media.Sabine Maasen - 2004 - In Susan Pockett (ed.), Does consciousness cause behaviour? Mit Press. pp. 339-359.
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    (1 other version)Oxytocin: Vom Geburts- zum Sozialhormon: Zur hormonellen Regierbarkeit von Soziabilität aka Gesellschaft.Sabine Maasen & Xenia Steinbach - 2018 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 26 (1):1-30.
    ZusammenfassungIn massenmedialen Darstellungen wird das Hormon Oxytocin gegenwärtig als biochemische Basis von Sozialität und wirkmächtiger neuropharmakologischer Lösungsansatz für die (Wieder‑)Herstellung der gesellschaftlichen Kohäsion verhandelt. Mit Blick auf die ursprüngliche Bedeutung des Hormons als „Körperhormon“ zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts soll im vorliegenden Artikel die außergewöhnliche Karriere von Oxytocin vom Regulator des Geburtsvorgangs hin zum Regulator der Gesellschaft nachgezeichnet werden. Woraus bezieht eine solch voraussetzungsvolle Behauptung ihre Intelligibilität und Akzeptabilität? Unsere Analyse des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses um Oxytocin (1906–1990), des massenmedialen Diskurses seit (...)
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    (1 other version)Selves in turmoil - neurocognitive and societal challenges of the self.Sabine Maasen - 2007 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 14 (1-2):252-270.
    As the cognitive neurosciences set out to challenge our understanding of consciousness, the existing conceptual panoply of meanings attached to the term remains largely unaccounted for. By way of bibliometric analysis, the following study first reveals the breadth and shift of meanings over the last decades, the main tendency being a more 'brainy' concept of consciousness. On this basis, the emergence of consciousness studies is regarded as a 'trading zone' (Galison) in which experimental, philosophical and experiential accounts are dialectically engaged. (...)
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  17. Self, past and present.Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter & Stefanie Duttweiler - 2007 - In Sabine Maasen & Barbara Sutter (eds.), On willing selves: neoliberal politics vis-à-vis the neuroscientific challenge. New York: Plagrave Macmiilan.
     
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    Science studies: probing the dynamics of scientific knowledge.Sabine Maasen & Matthias Winterhager (eds.) - 2001 - Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
    How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? The answers are found in part in the interdisciplinary field called science studies. This field provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. It helps us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Its observation is that science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as "knowledge society." Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of (...)
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  19. Human by Nature.Peter Weingart, Sandra D. Mitchell, Peter J. Richerson & Sabine Maasen (eds.) - 1997 - London:
     
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