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Contributors to this issue
Łukasz Afeltowicz is a sociologist and philosopher. Assistant Professor at the
Institute of Sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Author of three books: Laboratory in Action. Technological innovations in light of
An-thropology of Science (2011), Models, artifacts, collectives (2012), and Social machines. Anything goes, as long as works (with Krzysztof Pietrowicz).
Inter-ests: cognitive and social studies on science and technology, philosophy of science, sociology of scientific knowledge, cognitive and social engineering.
Nikolaus Fogle is a philosopher and librarian. He received his PhD in
philos-ophy from Temple University in 2009 and his book The Spatial Logic of Social Struggle, about the social field theory of Pierre Bourdieu, was published in 2011. As the Philosophy Liaison Librarian at Villanova University, and a Post-doctoral Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources, he provides collection development, research assistance, and other services to several humanities programs, and supports initiatives in the digital humani-ties and open access publishing.
Agnieszka Jelewska – Dr., founder and director of the Interdisciplinary
Re-search Center Humanities/Art/Technology (HAT Center, UAM). She is re-searcher, lecturer and sometimes practitioner. She is a editor of book series about contemporary dance and culture. She carries out interdisciplinary re-search on theatre, dance, visual culture, architecture and new media. The author of Edward Gordon Craig‘s Myth of the Art of the Theatre (2007) and
Sen-sorium. Essays on Art and Technology (2012), as well as Ecotopias. The Expan-sion of Technoculture (2013).
David Kirsh is Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the
Uni-versity of California, San Diego. For the last years he has been carrying out research in three different but complementary areas: Theory of Interaction,
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Environment Design, Information Architecture. He is interested in how people think with things, what being situated, embedded and embodied means, how they project structure onto the world to facilitate interaction, and how they make sense of instructions. He is also interested in design and especially how to design interactive artifacts and experientially rich environments.
Robert K. Logan is Professor Emeritus in physics at the U. of Toronto and
Chief Scientist at the Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has a variety of research experiences. His interests in-clude: Linguistics: the origin and evolution of language (the Extended Mind Model for the origin of language, the human mind and culture); Social Impact and History of Media; Science Education; Use of Computers in Education; Knowledge Management; Biocomplexity; The Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD: Design and Emergence; Information Theory.
Andrzej W. Nowak – PhD, assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy at
Adam Mickiewicz University. He is interested in social ontology, social studies on science and non-classical sociology of knowledge (especially in the Actor-Network Theory by Bruno Latour). Popularizer of Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of Modern World-System in Poland. He currently directs a research project devoted to the relationship of knowledge structures to scientific-social controversy. Author of dozens of scholarly articles, active participant in aca-demic life, also in the blogosphere.
Jan Sleutels is Professor of philosophy at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
After specializing in the philosopy of cognitive neuroscience (PhD Nijmegen, 1994), his research and teaching interests broadened to include philosophy of mind, media philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics. He is currently ex-ploring the way in which changing media landscapes (such as writing, print-ing, Internet) may affect a community's basic epistemic virtues and psycholog-ical self-image.
Georg Theiner is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Villanova University in
Philadelphia, USA. He received his PhD in Philosophy, with a Joint PhD in Cognitive Science, at Indiana University in 2008. Before joining Villanova in the fall of 2011, he was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alber-ta. His main areas of research are theories of embodied cognition, group
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nition, and the “extended mind” thesis. He is the author of Res Cogitans
Exten-sa: A Philosophical Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis (2011).
Marcin Trybulec works as adjunct professor at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska
University in Lublin, Poland. His areas of research covers philosophical and methodological dimensions of Literacy Theory, philosophy of communication and situated cognition. Recently he co-edited (with Marek Hetmanski) special issue of “Dialogue and Universalism” 1/2013 devoted to cognitive and cultural consequences of writing and other media of communication.
Manuela L. Ungureanu holds a BA (Hon.) in Philosophy and History from the
University of Bucharest and a PhD in Philosophy from McGill University, Montréal. While her research covers topics in literacy studies, philosophy of the social sciences and philosophy of language, she also teaches courses in contemporary epistemology and political philosophy. Thanks to her studies in the 1980s at the University of Bucharest, thus during the ill-reputed Romanian communist regime, she has developed an interest in the historical and politi-cal dimensions of university-based research, and, specifipoliti-cally, of academic freedoms.
