Contributors
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Marianne van den Boomen is lecturer-researcher in new media and digital culture in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She has been working as a copyeditor, journalist, and web designer, and has published several articles and books on Internet culture. Her current research focuses on the role of metaphors in Internet epistemology and ontology.
Iina Hellsten is an assistant professor in science communication at the VU University Amsterdam. Her background is in journalism research, science communication, science dynamics, metaphor analysis, and Internet research, and her work has been published in journals such as Science Communication, New Genetics and Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, First Monday, Science as Culture, Scientometrics, and Metaphor and Symbol.
Jozef Keulartz is an associate professor of applied philosophy at Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands. He has been appointed special chair for environmental philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Nether-lands. Keulartz has published extensively in science and technology studies, social and political philosophy, bioethics, environmental ethics, and nature policy. He is a member of the scientific council of the European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC), and also the Netherlands Commission on Genetic Modification (GOGEM). [End Page 137]
Michiel Korthals is a professor of applied philosophy at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He studied philosophy, sociology, German, and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Karl Ruprecht Universität in Heidelberg. His academic interests include deliberative theories, American pragmatism and bioethics, and ethical problems concerning food production and environmental issues. Korthals principal publications include Filo-sofie en intersubjectiviteit (1983), Duurzaamheid en democratie (1995), Philosophy of Development (with Wouter van Haaften and Thomas Wren, 1996), Between Food and Medicine (2001), Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture (with Jozef Keulartz et al., 2002), and Before Dinner: An Introduction into Food Ethics (2004).
Chunglin Kwa is a lecturer in science and technology studies at the University of Amsterdam. His previous work involved the steering of academic science toward societal relevance, in particular around the climatic change and global warming issue. In early 2010, his general history of the styles of science, from antiquity to the present, will be published.
Cor van der Weele is a biologist and philosopher by training. Her doctoral dissertation in the philosophy of biology (“Images of Development: Environmental Causes in Biology,” 1999) focused on the pragmatics and ethics of explanation in developmental biology. She has published in various areas of biology, philosophy, and art, with a special interest in the role of images and selective attention in science and philosophy. She is an assistant professor in applied philosophy at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, where one of her research projects focuses on the gap in science and ethics. [End Page 138]
