Marco Tamborini
Biographic Data
| ID | 1175522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Tamborini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamborini |
| SIGNATURE | TAMBORINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7102-7479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The epistemic grammar of bioinspired technologies
This article philosophically addresses the promise of biomimetic design, according to which mimicking natural forms can provide better, more sustainable and less risky engineering solutions. Focusing on the grammar of scientific practices, the article establishes an epistemological basis for biomimetic technology that explores the creative interaction between technology and nature. The epistemological framework shows that bioinspired objects are …
Exploring the transition
By focusing on biorobotics, this article explores the epistemological foundations necessary to support the transition from biological models to technological artifacts. To address this transition, I analyze the position of the German philosopher Thomas Fuchs, who represents one possible approach to the problem of the relationship between bio-inspired technology and biology. While Fuchs defends the idea of a unique ontological space for humans, th…
Deconstructing Dinosaurs
Biotechnics and politics
This article presents a new perspective on the intersection of technology, biology, and politics in modern Germany by examining the history of biotechnics, a nonanthropocentric concept of technology that was developed in German-speaking Europe from the 1870s to the 1930s. Biotechnics challenged the traditional view of technology as exclusively a human creation, arguing that nature itself could also be a source of technical innovations. Our study …
Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
This open access handbook assesses the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences.
The elephant in the room
Organic form and evolution
This paper examines the efforts in evolution research to understand form's structure that developed in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, it analyzes how the organic approach in biology and the study of organic form merged in the morphological research agendas of Giuseppe Colosi (1892-1975) and Giuseppe Levi (1872-1965). These biologists sought to understand form's inner composition and structure. First, I will b…
The Circulation of Morphological Knowledge
This essay pushes the history of a scientific discipline, morphology, toward a broader philosophically informed and cross-disciplinarily engaged history of knowledge. It shows that by looking at how knowledge and practices circulated between scientific disciplines (such as biology) and technoscientific ones (like architecture and design) we can better understand how (morphological) knowledge was produced. By doing so, the analysis contributes to …
Abstraction in Contemporary Visual Culture as an Interplay between Imagination, Image and Scientific Knowledge
Can abstraction be considered as an interdisciplinary historical condition? In what ways does it affect the definition of the abstract image? This paper answers these questions by focusing on a specific case study – Beaumont Newhall’s article “The New Abstract Vision” (1947) – that presents a relevant, and yet underrated, interplay between the artistic and scientific domains in representing abstraction. By proposing abstraction as a cultural feat…
Technoscientific approaches to deep time
Series of forms, visual techniques, and quantitative devices
The reception of Darwin in late nineteenth-century German paleontology as a case of pyrrhic victory
Introduction
If the Americans can do it, so can we
Between 1909 and 1913, Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin Museum of Natural History) unearthed more than 225 tons of fossils in former German East Africa and transported them to Berlin. Among them were the bones of Brachiosaurus brancai, which would eventually become the biggest mounted dinosaur in the world. By analyzing the social and communicative strategies that made this expedition possible, this paper aims to reveal several aspects of n…
The elephant in the room
The Circulation of Morphological Knowledge
This essay pushes the history of a scientific discipline, morphology, toward a broader philosophically informed and cross-disciplinarily engaged history of knowledge. It shows that by looking at how knowledge and practices circulated between scientific disciplines (such as biology) and technoscientific ones (like architecture and design) we can better understand how (morphological) knowledge was produced. By doing so, the analysis contributes to …
Technoscientific approaches to deep time
Biotechnics and politics
This article presents a new perspective on the intersection of technology, biology, and politics in modern Germany by examining the history of biotechnics, a nonanthropocentric concept of technology that was developed in German-speaking Europe from the 1870s to the 1930s. Biotechnics challenged the traditional view of technology as exclusively a human creation, arguing that nature itself could also be a source of technical innovations. Our study …
Series of forms, visual techniques, and quantitative devices
If the Americans can do it, so can we
Between 1909 and 1913, Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin Museum of Natural History) unearthed more than 225 tons of fossils in former German East Africa and transported them to Berlin. Among them were the bones of Brachiosaurus brancai, which would eventually become the biggest mounted dinosaur in the world. By analyzing the social and communicative strategies that made this expedition possible, this paper aims to reveal several aspects of n…
If the Americans can do it, so can we
Between 1909 and 1913, Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin Museum of Natural History) unearthed more than 225 tons of fossils in former German East Africa and transported them to Berlin. Among them were the bones of Brachiosaurus brancai, which would eventually become the biggest mounted dinosaur in the world. By analyzing the social and communicative strategies that made this expedition possible, this paper aims to reveal several aspects of n…
The reception of Darwin in late nineteenth-century German paleontology as a case of pyrrhic victory
Introduction
Series of forms, visual techniques, and quantitative devices
Technoscientific approaches to deep time
Abstraction in Contemporary Visual Culture as an Interplay between Imagination, Image and Scientific Knowledge
Can abstraction be considered as an interdisciplinary historical condition? In what ways does it affect the definition of the abstract image? This paper answers these questions by focusing on a specific case study – Beaumont Newhall’s article “The New Abstract Vision” (1947) – that presents a relevant, and yet underrated, interplay between the artistic and scientific domains in representing abstraction. By proposing abstraction as a cultural feat…
Organic form and evolution
This paper examines the efforts in evolution research to understand form's structure that developed in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, it analyzes how the organic approach in biology and the study of organic form merged in the morphological research agendas of Giuseppe Colosi (1892-1975) and Giuseppe Levi (1872-1965). These biologists sought to understand form's inner composition and structure. First, I will b…
The Circulation of Morphological Knowledge
This essay pushes the history of a scientific discipline, morphology, toward a broader philosophically informed and cross-disciplinarily engaged history of knowledge. It shows that by looking at how knowledge and practices circulated between scientific disciplines (such as biology) and technoscientific ones (like architecture and design) we can better understand how (morphological) knowledge was produced. By doing so, the analysis contributes to …
Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
This open access handbook assesses the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences.
The elephant in the room
The epistemic grammar of bioinspired technologies
This article philosophically addresses the promise of biomimetic design, according to which mimicking natural forms can provide better, more sustainable and less risky engineering solutions. Focusing on the grammar of scientific practices, the article establishes an epistemological basis for biomimetic technology that explores the creative interaction between technology and nature. The epistemological framework shows that bioinspired objects are …
Exploring the transition
By focusing on biorobotics, this article explores the epistemological foundations necessary to support the transition from biological models to technological artifacts. To address this transition, I analyze the position of the German philosopher Thomas Fuchs, who represents one possible approach to the problem of the relationship between bio-inspired technology and biology. While Fuchs defends the idea of a unique ontological space for humans, th…
Deconstructing Dinosaurs
Biotechnics and politics
This article presents a new perspective on the intersection of technology, biology, and politics in modern Germany by examining the history of biotechnics, a nonanthropocentric concept of technology that was developed in German-speaking Europe from the 1870s to the 1930s. Biotechnics challenged the traditional view of technology as exclusively a human creation, arguing that nature itself could also be a source of technical innovations. Our study …
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · History (8 works) · History of Science and Natural History (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Paleontology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)