Cornelius Borck
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 173877 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cornelius Borck |
| NOMBRES | Cornelius |
| APELLIDO | Borck |
| FIRMA | BORCK C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lübeck |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6196-3885 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Descent of Artificial Intelligence
In memoriam Fritz Krafft (10. Juli 1935 – 9. November 2025)
Am 9. November 2025 ist Fritz Krafft, der Gründer und langjährige Herausgeber der Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte , im Alter von 90 Jahren verstorben. Von 1988 bis zu seiner Emeritierung 2000 leitete er das Marburger Institut für Geschichte der Pharmazie und der Naturwissenschaften. Bereits 1978, damals war er Professor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Universität Mainz und Präsident der Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (GWG), init…
Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine
Uncertainty has been highlighted as a paradoxical consequence of precision medicine (PM). In the life sciences and medicine, uncertainty is often conceptualized as something that can be clearly delimited and overcome by more information and better understanding derived from more research, more data, better tools etc. Building on the observation of uncertainty in PM and exploring it further by differentiating between socio-technical, epistemologic…
One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research
Viktor Emil von Gebsattels Aufstieg zum Deuter des Zeiterlebens. Psychopathologie vor, im und nach dem Nationalsozialismus
Article Viktor Emil von Gebsattels Aufstieg zum Deuter des Zeiterlebens. Psychopathologie vor, im und nach dem Nationalsozialismus was published on May 1, 2020 in the journal ZfK - Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (volume 15, issue 1)
Tactile Vision, Epistemic Things and Data Visualization
Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger constructed his historical epistemology of epistemic things by analyzing experimental practices in molecular biology during the 1970s and 80s. With genetic sequencing and multi‐omics approaches, data has become a new resource in the life sciences, questioning the applicability of his concept of experimental system. By historicizing Rheinberger's epistemology, the paper focuses on its relatedness to Ludwik Fleck's notion of a…
Viktor Emil von Gebsattels Aufstieg zum Deuter des Zeiterlebens. Psychopathologie vor, im und nach dem Nationalsozialismus
Article Viktor Emil von Gebsattels Aufstieg zum Deuter des Zeiterlebens. Psychopathologie vor, im und nach dem Nationalsozialismus was published on May 1, 2021 in the journal Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (volume 15, issue 1)
Die Epistemologie von Forschungsumwelten
Synonyms and Symptoms of Covid-19 and Individual and Official Actions against the Disease—A Brief Online Survey 6 Months into the Pandemic and on the Threshold of the Second Wave in Germany
To control the ongoing global pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2, we need to influence people's behavior. To do so, we require information on people's knowledge and perception of the disease and their opinions about the importance of containment measures. Therefore, in August 2020, we conducted an anonymous cross-sectional online survey on these topics in 913 participants in Germany. Participants completed a questionnaire on various synonyms and symptoms…
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Vom Unwissen in Zeiten von Corona
Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, Being Brains. Making the Cerebral Subject
In Being Brains, Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega synthesize their different lines of work to a joint monograph with an overarching argument. Starting from the observation that, since the ‘Decade of the Brain’, personhood and subjectivity are typically understood as something intrinsically related to brain states, they argue that the emergence of this ‘cerebral subject’ was not the consequence of any decisive scientific insights or technologic…
Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Kultur
In Search of Lost Culture: From Neuroimaging via Critical Neuroscience to Cultural Neuroscience – and back to Critique . The availability of new technologies for visualizing brain activity generated great expectations to identify the centers responsible for human action and behavior and to “reduce” all mental processes to neuronal states. Some scientists even called society to adapt to the new insights from brain research by giving up outdated co…
Responsible Research? Dilemmata der Integration gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Perspektiven in naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramme (Einleitung)
How we may think
Hans Blumenberg beobachtet
Seit Wissenschaftsgeschichte weniger die Fortschritte fachlicher Theorien als vielmehr Brüche und Transformationen des Wissens im Kontext seiner kulturellen und medientechnischen Einbettung ins Zentrum ihrer Rekonstruktionen stellt, kommen sich Geschichte und Philosophie in die Quere, weil die Logik der Erkenntnis in Wissenschaft und Technik nicht länger die Richtung weist. Dieser Dynamik galt auch Hans Blumenbergs Mobilisierung der Geschichte me…
Comment faire du vaudou avec l'imagerie cérébrale fonctionnelle
À partir des discussions suscitées par l'article ' Voodoo correlations in social neuroscience ' (' Corrélations vaudoues dans les neurosciences sociales '), cette contribution propose une analyse épistémologique de l'imagerie cérébrale fonctionnelle inspirée des STS (Études des sciences et des technologies). La série d'événements que cet article a produits en a pratiquement fait un cas d'école du débat scientifique sur les méthodes, les normes et…
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Medical Science in the Light of a Flawed Study of the Holocaust
In her PhD thesis Reading Fleck: Questions on Philosophy and Science (Hedfors, 2006) and her papers based on it, Eva Hedfors proposes a sci entifically informed reading of Ludwik Fleck that aims to contest the (puta tive) mythology of Fleck. According to Hedfors, Fleck is believed to have been an important scientist. However, a careful reading of his scientific papers, she claims, reveals that Fleck's studies were poorly done, often meaningless a…
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 1/2008
Communicating the Modern Body
The visualization of the human body has always been a highly popular affair, and popular science writing has been particularly perceptive as to how new media has revolutionized science. This article analyzes the intertwining of science, culture, and technology by investigating the lavishly illustrated publications of Fritz Kahn, arguably one of the most successful popular science writers internationally between 1920 and 1960. His illustrations de…
Lässt sich vom Gehirn das Lernen lernen?
Die Fortschritte der Neurowissenschaften und die Faszination, die gegenwärtig von der Hirnforschung ausgeht, legen die Frage nahe, ob die Pädagogik sich ihrer für erfolgversprechende Modelle und Strategien bedienen sollte. Aus wissenschaftshistorischer Perspektive fällt aber neben den unbezweifelbaren Erfolgen vor allem eine erstaunliche Persistenz der leitenden Forschungsfragen ins Auge; seit mehr als hundert Jahren postuliert die Hirnforschung …
Brain and Visual Perception
Reviewed by: Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration Cornelius Borck David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel . Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 729 pp. Ill. $49.50 (0-19-517618-9). David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, who engaged in a remarkably long-lasting and extremely productive collaboration crowned by a shared Nobel Prize in 1981, shaped our cu…
Berlin Electropolis
In this book, Andreas Killen promises a new reading of the German metropolis as the capital of neurasthenia at the end of the nineteenth century, to contrast with the idea of Paris or Vienna in the same period as the capital of hysteria. The volume is, in fact, three books in one. First, it traces, as a sociopolitical history, Germany's ambivalent path to modernity via the introduction of social insurance in the 1880s. Second, it details, as a so…
Mindful Practices
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Electricity as a Medium of Psychic Life
Argument When electricity became a commodity in 1900, it furnished Germany with new attractions and revolutionized everyday life with all kinds of tools and gadgets; it also opened up a new space for investigating psycho-physical interaction, reviving ideas of a close linkage between psychic life and electricity. The paper traces the emergence of this electro-psychological framework beyond "electroencephalography," the recording of electrical bra…
Writing Brains
At the end of the 19th century, the graphic method kindled attempts to use it for investigating psychic processes. In Germany, Hans Berger took up this line of research, later to become the pioneer of electroencephalography (EEG). This trajectory of Berger's work is analyzed as an "enabling constraint" guiding him toward the EEG at a time when nobody else was pursuing this line of research and also causing serious methodological problems. In the …
Message in a bottle from ‘the crisis of reality’
Medical Science in the Light of a Flawed Study of the Holocaust
In her PhD thesis Reading Fleck: Questions on Philosophy and Science (Hedfors, 2006) and her papers based on it, Eva Hedfors proposes a sci entifically informed reading of Ludwik Fleck that aims to contest the (puta tive) mythology of Fleck. According to Hedfors, Fleck is believed to have been an important scientist. However, a careful reading of his scientific papers, she claims, reveals that Fleck's studies were poorly done, often meaningless a…
How we may think
Homo cerebralis
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 4, Winter 1999
Electricity as a Medium of Psychic Life
Argument When electricity became a commodity in 1900, it furnished Germany with new attractions and revolutionized everyday life with all kinds of tools and gadgets; it also opened up a new space for investigating psycho-physical interaction, reviving ideas of a close linkage between psychic life and electricity. The paper traces the emergence of this electro-psychological framework beyond "electroencephalography," the recording of electrical bra…
Mindful Practices
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Kopfarbeit. Die Suche nach einer präzisen Meßmethode für psychische Vorgänge
In a series of three brief case studies, it is reconstructed how cognition and psychic activity were explored as energetic and economic transformations in a variety of experimental settings. 1. In the 1870s, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin started his search for an objective measurement of cognitive performance in which he engaged over several decades. His investigations resulted in a graphic representation of cognitive efficiency, the "ar…
Message in a bottle from ‘the crisis of reality’
Writing Brains
At the end of the 19th century, the graphic method kindled attempts to use it for investigating psychic processes. In Germany, Hans Berger took up this line of research, later to become the pioneer of electroencephalography (EEG). This trajectory of Berger's work is analyzed as an "enabling constraint" guiding him toward the EEG at a time when nobody else was pursuing this line of research and also causing serious methodological problems. In the …
Lässt sich vom Gehirn das Lernen lernen?
Die Fortschritte der Neurowissenschaften und die Faszination, die gegenwärtig von der Hirnforschung ausgeht, legen die Frage nahe, ob die Pädagogik sich ihrer für erfolgversprechende Modelle und Strategien bedienen sollte. Aus wissenschaftshistorischer Perspektive fällt aber neben den unbezweifelbaren Erfolgen vor allem eine erstaunliche Persistenz der leitenden Forschungsfragen ins Auge; seit mehr als hundert Jahren postuliert die Hirnforschung …
Brain and Visual Perception
Reviewed by: Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration Cornelius Borck David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel . Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 729 pp. Ill. $49.50 (0-19-517618-9). David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, who engaged in a remarkably long-lasting and extremely productive collaboration crowned by a shared Nobel Prize in 1981, shaped our cu…
Berlin Electropolis
In this book, Andreas Killen promises a new reading of the German metropolis as the capital of neurasthenia at the end of the nineteenth century, to contrast with the idea of Paris or Vienna in the same period as the capital of hysteria. The volume is, in fact, three books in one. First, it traces, as a sociopolitical history, Germany's ambivalent path to modernity via the introduction of social insurance in the 1880s. Second, it details, as a so…
Communicating the Modern Body
The visualization of the human body has always been a highly popular affair, and popular science writing has been particularly perceptive as to how new media has revolutionized science. This article analyzes the intertwining of science, culture, and technology by investigating the lavishly illustrated publications of Fritz Kahn, arguably one of the most successful popular science writers internationally between 1920 and 1960. His illustrations de…
Medical Science in the Light of a Flawed Study of the Holocaust
In her PhD thesis Reading Fleck: Questions on Philosophy and Science (Hedfors, 2006) and her papers based on it, Eva Hedfors proposes a sci entifically informed reading of Ludwik Fleck that aims to contest the (puta tive) mythology of Fleck. According to Hedfors, Fleck is believed to have been an important scientist. However, a careful reading of his scientific papers, she claims, reveals that Fleck's studies were poorly done, often meaningless a…
Rezension
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 1/2008
Rezension
Hans Blumenberg beobachtet
Seit Wissenschaftsgeschichte weniger die Fortschritte fachlicher Theorien als vielmehr Brüche und Transformationen des Wissens im Kontext seiner kulturellen und medientechnischen Einbettung ins Zentrum ihrer Rekonstruktionen stellt, kommen sich Geschichte und Philosophie in die Quere, weil die Logik der Erkenntnis in Wissenschaft und Technik nicht länger die Richtung weist. Dieser Dynamik galt auch Hans Blumenbergs Mobilisierung der Geschichte me…
Comment faire du vaudou avec l'imagerie cérébrale fonctionnelle
À partir des discussions suscitées par l'article ' Voodoo correlations in social neuroscience ' (' Corrélations vaudoues dans les neurosciences sociales '), cette contribution propose une analyse épistémologique de l'imagerie cérébrale fonctionnelle inspirée des STS (Études des sciences et des technologies). La série d'événements que cet article a produits en a pratiquement fait un cas d'école du débat scientifique sur les méthodes, les normes et…
How we may think
Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, Being Brains. Making the Cerebral Subject
In Being Brains, Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega synthesize their different lines of work to a joint monograph with an overarching argument. Starting from the observation that, since the ‘Decade of the Brain’, personhood and subjectivity are typically understood as something intrinsically related to brain states, they argue that the emergence of this ‘cerebral subject’ was not the consequence of any decisive scientific insights or technologic…
Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Kultur
In Search of Lost Culture: From Neuroimaging via Critical Neuroscience to Cultural Neuroscience – and back to Critique . The availability of new technologies for visualizing brain activity generated great expectations to identify the centers responsible for human action and behavior and to “reduce” all mental processes to neuronal states. Some scientists even called society to adapt to the new insights from brain research by giving up outdated co…
Responsible Research? Dilemmata der Integration gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Perspektiven in naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramme (Einleitung)
Vom Unwissen in Zeiten von Corona
Viktor Emil von Gebsattels Aufstieg zum Deuter des Zeiterlebens. Psychopathologie vor, im und nach dem Nationalsozialismus
Article Viktor Emil von Gebsattels Aufstieg zum Deuter des Zeiterlebens. Psychopathologie vor, im und nach dem Nationalsozialismus was published on May 1, 2021 in the journal Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (volume 15, issue 1)
Die Epistemologie von Forschungsumwelten
Synonyms and Symptoms of Covid-19 and Individual and Official Actions against the Disease—A Brief Online Survey 6 Months into the Pandemic and on the Threshold of the Second Wave in Germany
To control the ongoing global pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2, we need to influence people's behavior. To do so, we require information on people's knowledge and perception of the disease and their opinions about the importance of containment measures. Therefore, in August 2020, we conducted an anonymous cross-sectional online survey on these topics in 913 participants in Germany. Participants completed a questionnaire on various synonyms and symptoms…
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