Nicole C. Karafyllis
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Nicole C. Karafyllis (* 1970 in Luedinghausen, Westfalia, Germany), is a German-Greek 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. In 2007 she has been a Visiting Professor for Applied Philosophy of Science at Vienna University (Austria).
Her philosophical fields of work are phenomenology,anthropology, bioethics, philosophy of technology, philosophy of science, 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. Other main topics of her work are the philosophy of plants, situated in a phenomenology of growth, and the philosophy of emotions in light of the neurosciences.
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Karafyllis, N.C. (2000). Nachwachsende Rohstoffe – Technikbewertung zwischen den Leitbildern Wachstum und Nachhaltigkeit. Opladen: Leske+Budrich. Awarded with the Franzke-Prize for Technology and Responsibility of the TU Berlin 2001.
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. (2008). 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.
Karafyllis, N.C. (2008). Endogenous Design of Biofacts. Tissues and Networks in Bio Art and Life Science. In: sk-interfaces. Exploding borders - creating membranes in art, technology and society. Ed. by Jens Hauser. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press. 42-58
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Claus Zittel, Romano Nanni, Gisela Engel and Nicole C. Karafyllis (ed.): Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries. Leiden: Brill Publ. (forthcoming 2008)
Karafyllis, N.C. and G. Ulshöfer [ed.] (2008). Sexualized Brains. Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (forthcoming July 2008).
