Hans Blumenberg''s History and Philosophy of Science

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Alberto Fragio Gistau Alberto Fragio is full professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México Unidad Cuajimalpa. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy (2007) from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (Spain) and in Cultural Science (2011) from Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi di Modena (Italy). From 2007 to 2010 he undertook a dedicated research project on Hans Blumenbergs history and philosophy of science with the support of the Fondazione Collegio San Carlo (Italy). He has published Paradigmen zu einer Metaphorologie des Kosmos. Hans Blumenberg und die zeitgenössischen Metaphern des Universums (Nomos/Verlag Karl Alber 2023). On this same author he has co-edited Hans Blumenberg. Nuovi paradigmi danalisi (Roma 2010) and Metaphorologie Anthropologie Phänomenologie. Neue Forschungen zum Nachlass Hans Blumenbergs (Freiburg/München 2019).   Josefa Ros Velasco Josefa Ros Velasco is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid where she is the PI of the project Pre-bored. Well-being and prevention of boredom in Spanish nursing homes (2021-2024). Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher for the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Harvard University for Distinguished Junior Scholars program (2017-2021). She is a specialist in Boredom Studies from a multidisciplinary perspective and the founder and president of the International Society of Boredom Studies. She is the author of the book The Disease of Boredom (Princeton University Press 2025) and editor of books such as Suicide in Modern Literature (Springer 2021) or Boredom Is in Your Mind (Springer 2019). For her academic achievements she received distinctions such as the Spanish National Research Prize 2022 or the Harvard University Lincoln Book Prize 2019 among others.   Martina Philippi Martina Philippi did her Ph.D. in philosophy on Edmund Husserls phenomenology. She worked at Leipzig University and Ruhr-University Bochum and is currently a postdoc researcher in the Collaborate Research Center Constructing Explainability (SFB/TRR 318) at Paderborn University. Her main topics are phenomenology and ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation. Book publications: Metaphorologie Anthropologie Phänomenologie. Neue Forschungen zum Nachlass Hans Blumenberg (together with Alberto Fragio and Josefa Ros Velasco Alber Verlag Freiburg/Br. 2020); Selbstverständlichkeit und Problematisierung. Husserls Programm der Phänomenologie (Fink Verlag Paderborn 2023).   Cornelius Borck Cornelius Borck has been head of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Research at the University of Lübeck since 2007 and is spokesman for the Center for Cultural Studies Research there. After studying medicine philosophy religious studies and medical history in Hamburg Heidelberg and Berlin he was a Karl Schädler Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 1998 to 2001. From 2002 to 2004 he headed the research group Writing Life. Media Technology and the Sciences of Life 1800-1900 at Bauhaus University Weimar from 2004 to 2007 Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Language of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. His research interests include the contemporary history of medicine; brain research between media technology and neurophilosophy; human-machine relations in art and science; aesthetics and epistemology of the experiment. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg and was editor of the Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte from 2008 to 2018.