[spsp-members] Call for Papers: The Philosophy of Imitating and Learning from Nature

[Marco Tamborini]

Special Issue Information

Imitating and learning from nature form part of a widely recognized approach in almost all fields of innovation, from engineering and design to architecture and agriculture. Recent years have also seen a significant rise in philosophical interest in the topic, with philosophers of science and technology making important contributions to biomimetics and bioinspiration, and environmental philosophers focusing more on biomimicry, which underlines the normative, ethical, and sustainability aspects of the approach. The result is that many basic philosophical areas have now been covered in reasonable detail, including history and philosophy of nature-inspired design (Tamborini 2022, Gerola et al. 2023), the relationship to environmental ethics (Blok and Gremmen 2016, Dicks 2019), the epistemological importance of “learning from nature” (Dicks 2023), and even ontological discussions of nature (Mathews 2011). Further contributions to these debates are welcome, but we are particularly interested in philosophical analyses that address new and under-explored areas, including (i) applied fields, such as AI and robotics, military technologies, or environment and climate-focussed technologies; (ii) nature-inspired design as seen from the perspective of other humanities or social science disciplines, including art and literature, anthropology and sociology, development studies, law, economics, and politics; and (iii) the relation of nature-inspired design to other approaches, including bio-design, bio-hybridization, eco-conception, and nature-based solutions.

Dr. Henry Dicks
Dr. Marco Tamborini
Guest Editors

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PD Dr. habil. Marco Tamborini
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Institut für Philosophie
marco.tamborini at tu-darmstadt.de <mailto:marco.tamborini at tu-darmstadt.de>

TU-Webpage <http://www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de/tamborini>
Personal website <https://sites.google.com/site/marcotamborinisite>

Associate member at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« <https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/members/11513/pd-dr-marco-tamborini>

Recent publications:
- “Biorobotik <https://www.junius-verlag.de/Neue-Buecher/Biorobotik-zur-Einfu-hrung.html>” Junius Verlag. Zur Einführung (2024)
- “Entgrenzung. Die Biologisierung der Technik und die Technisierung der Biologie <https://meiner.de/entgrenzung.html>”. Meiner Verlag (2022)
- “The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology <https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947356/>”. University of Pittsburgh Press (2023).
- "Is biorobotics science? Some theoretical reflections <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/aca24b/meta>”. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (with Edoardo Datteri) (2023).
- "The Elephant in the Room: The Biomimetic Principle in Bio-Robotics and Embodied AI <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368122001741?via=ihub>”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2023).
- "Die Philosophie der Bio-Robotik <https://meiner.de/die-philosophie-der-bio-robotik.html>”. Meiner Verlag (2024).
- "Biotechnics and Politics: A Genealogy of Nonhuman Technology <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00732753231187676>” (with Matthew Vollgraff) Online first History of Science.
- "From biomimicry to robotic co-creation: rethinking the boundaries between nature and technology <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/ad1b2a>” Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

-  "The Epistemic Grammar of Bioinspired Technologies: Shifting the Focus from Nature to Scientific Practices <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X2400174X?via=ihub>". Technology in Society 78 (2024) 102626  - Open Access
- "Exploring the Transition: Biology, Technology, and Epistemic Activities <https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23586/1/Preprint.pdf>”. Synthese  27, (2024), Open Access


















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