Nicole C. Karafyllis
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Nicole C. Karafyllis(* 1970 in Luedinghausen, Westfalia, Germany), is a German philosopher and biologist. She received a doctorate at Tuebingen University in 1999 at the Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities. Her Habilitation in philosophy was completed at the University of Stuttgart in 2006, dealing with the topic: Phenomenology of Growth. Philosophy and scientific History of productive Life between Nature and Technology. Since 1998 she has been working at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Her philosophical fields of work are phenomenology,anthropology, bioethics, philosophy of technology, history of science, technology assessment, in which she develops a theory of biofacticity. She introduced the term biofact in philosophy in 2001, to stress the shifting borders between the concepts of nature, biology and technology. Another main topic of her work is the philosophy of plants, situated in a phenomenology of growth.
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Karafyllis, N.C. (2000). Nachwachsende Rohstoffe – Technikbewertung zwischen den Leitbildern Wachstum und Nachhaltigkeit. Opladen: Leske+Budrich.
Karafyllis, N.C. (2001). Biologisch, natürlich, nachhaltig. Philosophische Aspekte des Naturzugangs im 21. Jahrhundert. Tübingen/Basel: A. Francke.
Karafyllis, N.C. und Schmidt, J.C. (ed.) (2002). Zugänge zur Rationalität der Zukunft. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler.
Karafyllis, N.C. [ed.] (2003). Biofakte. Versuch über den Menschen zwischen Artefakt und Lebewesen. Paderborn: Mentis.
Karafyllis, N.C., Krohmer, T., Schirrmeister, A., Söll, Ä. and Wilkens, A. [ed.] (2004). De-Marginalisierungen. Berlin: trafo.
Karafyllis, N.C. und Haar, T. [ed.] (2004). Technikphilosophie im Aufbruch. Festschrift für Günter Ropohl. Berlin: edition sigma.
Engel, G. and Karafyllis, N.C. [ed.]. (2004) Technik in der Frühen Neuzeit – Schrittma-cher der europäischen Moderne. Themenband der Zeitschrift Zeitsprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, 8. Jg., Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
Engel, G. and Karafyllis, N.C. [ed.] (2005). Re-Produktionen. Berlin: trafo
Karafyllis, N.C. (2007). Die Phänomenologie des Wachstums. Bielefeld: transcript (forthcoming).
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Karafyllis, N.C. (2002). Biotechnology – the offspring of life science or techno science? Newsletter of the European Society of Agricultural and Food Ethics (EURSAFE) (4), No. 2. Karafyllis, N.C. (2003). Renewable resources and the idea of nature – what has biotechnology got to do with it? Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Vol. 16 (1) 2003. 3-28. Karafyllis, N.C. (2007). Growth of Biofacts: The real thing or metaphor? In: R. Heil, A. Kaminski et al. (ed.) Tensions. Technological and Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of Society. Bielefeld: transcript publishers. 141-152.
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Gisela Engel, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Claus Zittel and Romano Nanni (ed.): Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries: Sex, Gender and the Brain. Leiden: Brill Publ. 2007
Ulshöfer, G. and Karafyllis, N.C. [ed.] (2007). Emotional Intelligence and Elites: Sex, Gender and the Brain (forthcoming).
