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new biometrical devices such as iris checks, sound
wave measurements, sound editions and other
features or security checks that have become part
of immigration procedures, open up new horizons
and norms for scientific research, as well as
g e n e r a t i n g n e w o n t o l o g y a n d g l o b a l
"communication hubs" for further research. The
modern world has also begun to dismantle the
philosophical dichotomy of subject / object, and
calls for the new "unbundling meanings".
Modern philosophy of science and technology
Another modern conceptual source of the
should encompass the major technological
subject matter is the “The Ellul Forum” founded in
advances of post-industrial civilization and
1988. It plays a crucial role in illustrating and
innovative industry. In its turn, the latter should
debating around the research and analyses of
move in the direction of maximally "pragmatic
innovations. It publishes the articles and results of
philosophy". Thus, the new field of study is
discussions on innovations, the critique referring
generated at the intersection between biosocial
to the technological civilizations connected with
and technology, more precisely, at the edge of the
new trends of the world development. Professor
boundaries of “novelty” and “traditional”. This is a
Erik Persson writes: “The pathologies of “extreme
new crossroads, where the alternative ontology
science” and “the science of the implausible”
and epistemological models are expanding the
show up almost everywhere in today's scientific
axiological and moral horizons. That is why, it is
world, the most spectacularly, perhaps, in fields
quite logical to assume that the modern philosophy
such as genetic engineering, embryonic stem cell
of science and technology should also serve as an
research, cloning, nanotechnology, artificial
innovation philosophy.
intelligence (AI), and robotics with their
However, the object of its study is not only the
outlandish discourses on such topics as the
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