Unbounded Technologies: Working Through the Technological Reductionism of Nanotechnology
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It will be shown that the umbrella term “nanotechnology” reveals the endeavor of recent engineering sciences and science-based technologies to find a fundamental technology, in other words: a root or core technology. This is linked to the leading and exciting vision of a specific kind of reductionism, namely technological reductionism, which has not yet been perceived by the philosophy of science. Further, it will be illustrated that the quest for a fundamental technology resembles the scientific research program of physics in its goal to find a grand unified theory of everything. Physicists have become pace-setters in research and development of nanotechnology.
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