This ebook offers with modern epistemological questions, connecting academic Philosophy with the sector of technology- and expertise reviews. it may be understood as a draft of a common concept of world-disclosure, that's in its middle a contrast among varieties of world-disclosure: scan and exploration. those types have by no means been essentially exclusive earlier than. the focal point lies at the experimental type of world-disclosure, that's defined intimately and unlike the explorational shape alongside the road of twenty-one features, that are more often than not derived from empirical experiences of experimental paintings within the box of typical sciences. it may possibly even be understood as an try to combine components of the Anglo-Saxon Philosophy of technological know-how with components of the German culture of academic Philosophy. this can be additionally mirrored within the sort of writing. according to the content-level of the publication, the argument for experimental varieties of world-disclosure is written in an essayistic, readable sort, that are understood as an experimental kind of writing.

This ebook is a translation of the doctoral thesis 'Experiment und Exploration. Bildung als experimentelle shape der Welterschließung' (summa cum laude). The thesis used to be released in German in 2010 through Transcript (Bielefeld) within the sequence referred to as 'Theorie Bilden', edited by means of Prof. Dr. Hannelore Faulstich-Wieland, Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Koller, Prof. Dr. Karl-Josef Pazzini and Prof. Dr. Michael Wimmer.