Markus F. Peschl (*1965) is professor for Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Science at the Dept. of Philosophy, Research Group Philosophy of Science: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge, University of Vienna, Austria. He spent two years at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD, cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy department) and 1/2 year at the University of Sussex for post-doctoral research. Furthermore, he studied philosophy for 1 1/2 years in France. His focus of research is on the question of knowledge (mainly innovation & knowledge creation, construction, and representation of knowledge) in various contexts: in natural and artificial cognitive (neural) systems, in social systems and science, in organizational and learning settings, in educational /knowledge transfer processes, as well as in the context of knowledge technologies and their embedding in social systems. The philosophical, epistemological, anthropological, and cognitive foundations of the human person and his/her knowledge are at the center of his attention. He follows a radically interdisciplinary approach integrating concepts from the natural sciences, philosophy (of science), from the humanities, as well as from (knowledge) technology. Working on the concept of “socio-epistemological engineering” he integrates concepts of knowledge creation/innovation, knowledge technologies, knowledge “transfer” with new media (alternative approaches to [e-]/blended-learning processes, “knowledge didactics”, etc.), epistemological and social aspects of knowledge creation/construction, and social innovation/engineering. Furthermore he works in the fields of personality development for gifted students, as well as in the field of interdisciplinary curriculum development (e.g., joint masters degree in cognitive science (MEi:CogSci), “studium generale”, etc.). Currently he is working in the field of radical innovation where he developed the concept of emergent innovation which is based on the U-theory. M. Peschl has published 6 books and more than 80 papers in international journals and collections. For further information see: http://www.univie.ac.at/knowledge/peschl/

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