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What is the Philosophy of Technology?
John P. Sullins, SPT Secretary/Treasurer: “Technology is philosophy actualized. Since technology does not arise solely from nature, its existence relies on the values, knowledge, and desires of individuals and groups. The Philosophy of Technology is not only the study of this phenomenon, but also the search for how we might design new technologies that promote the best values and philosophical ideas we have to offer.”
Neelke Doorne, past Techné Co-Editor In Chief: “Philosophy of Technology is the study of how our world is shaped by the presence of technology. Technologies enable us to do certain things we could not have done without technology. Additionally, technologies have an influence on how we perceive our world, both in terms of general knowledge but also in terms of moral values. In the last years, the philosophy of technology has increasingly focused on how technologies can be designed such that they promote the best values.”
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Biomedical and biological technologies
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Environmental technologies
Information and computer technology, AI and new media
Robotics
Mobility
Nanotechnology
Space technology
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In order to best use this resource, please scroll sideways over table for more information and press the green plus button for abstracts and member biography (if available). In addition, please note that there are more pages as each screen only shows the top ten resources. Furthermore, the search toolbar within the table can narrow down your search and help you find what you are looking for.
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| Last Name | First Name | Year of Publication | Title | Keywords | Publisher | Link | Editor |
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| Sjöstrand | Björn | 2021 | Derrida and Technology: Life, Politics, and Religion | Jacques Derrida, Man’s Technicity, Politics and Technology, Religion and Technology, Jacques Derrida and Technology, Phenomenology and Technology, Technology and Time | Springer | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-83407-4 | ||
| Litwack | Eric B. | 2021 | Bertrand Russell on Automation: How Necessary are Human Beings? | automation, technocracy, totalitarianism, philosophy of work | The Bertrand Russell Society Bulletin | https://bertrandrussellsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BRS-Bulletin-Spring-2021.pdf | Andy Bone, Gregory Landini, Charles Pigden, Giovanni Battista Ratti, Andreas Vrahimis | |
| Dmytro | Mykhailov | 2020 | The Phenomenological Roots of Technological Intentionality: A Postphenomenological Perspective | phenomenology, philosophy of technology, intentionality, meaning, postphenomenology, technological intentionality | Frontiers of Philosophy in China. Higher Education Press | http://journal.hep.com.cn/fpc/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=28771&1609498692815 | ||
| Coeckelbergh | Mark | 2020 | AI Ethics | Artificial intelligence, ethical issues | MIT Press | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ai-ethics | ||
| Poznic, Michael, Martin Stacey, Rafaela Hillerbrand, and Claudia Eckert | 2020 | Designing as Playing Games of Make-Believe | Philosophy of design, modelling, fictionalism, uncertainty, design process | Design Science – Cambridge University Press | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/design-science/article/designing-as-playing-games-of-makebelieve/67BC2E6B4ED339A61F1B866363852B04 | |||
| Coeckelbergh | Mark | 2019 | Introduction to Philosophy of Technology | Philosophy, technology, | Oxford University Press | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/introduction-to-philosophy-of-technology-9780190939809?cc=us&lang=en | ||
| Van Den Eede | Yoni | 2019 | The Beauty of Detours: A Batesonian Philosophy of Technology | Philosophy Science and Technology Science and Society | SUNY Press | https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6830-the-beauty-of-detours.aspx | ||
| Litwack | Eric B. | 2018 (2016) | “Technocracy.” | The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism : Taylor and Francis, 2016. Date Accessed 15 May. 2018 | https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/technocracy | |||
| Aslaksen | Erik W. | 2018 | The Social Bond: How the interaction between individuals drives the evolution of society | evolution of society; interaction between individuals; influence of technology | Springer | The book is a free download available at http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319687407 | ||
| Coeckelbergh | Mark | 2018 | Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Technology: Tool Use, Forms of Life, Technique, and a Transcendental Argument | philosophy of technology | Human Studies [online] 1(27) / Springer | http://rdcu.be/ECFz | Funk, Michael | |
| Poznic | Michael | 2017 | Models in Science and Engineering: Imagining, Designing and Evaluating Representations. | Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2017. | In Simon Stevin Series in the Philosophy of Technology, Vol. 13. http://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:a1bec569-8d24-45ea-9e7e-63c0b900504e | |||
| Shew | Ashley | 2017 | Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge | technological knowledge, epistemology of technology, animal tool use, philosophy of technology | Lexington Books | |||
| Shew | Ashley (ed.) | 2017 | Spaces for the Future: A Companion to Philosophy of Technology | Routledge | Pitt, Joseph C. (ed.) | |||
| Coeckelbergh | Mark | 2016 | Care robots and the future of ICT-mediated elderly care: a response to doom scenarios | AI & Society 31:4 (pp. 455-462) | ||||
| Coeckelbergh | Mark | 2016 | Alterity ex Machina: The Encounter with Technology as an Epistemological-Ethical Drama | Rowman & Littlefield International (pp. 181-196) | An article within The Changing Face of Alterity: Communication, Technology, and Other Subjects | |||
| de Melo-Martin | Inmaculada | 2016 | Rethinking Reprogenetics. Enhancing Ethical Analyses of Reprogenetic Technologies | Oxford University Press | ||||
| Hansson | Sven Ove | 2016 | Technology as a Practical Art | Springer (pp. 63-81) | In Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn | Eds. Marten Franssen. et al. | ||
| Hull | Gordon | 2016 | Cultural Branding, Geographic Source Indicators and Commodification | Theory, Culture & Society 33:2 (pp. 125-45) | DOI:10.1177/0263276415583140 | |||
| Kermisch | Celine | 2016 | A contribution to the analysis of equity associated with high-level radioactive waste management | Progress in nuclear energy 92 (pp. 40-47) | Depaus C. and Labeau P.E. | |||
| Kermisch | Celine | 2016 | Can today’s decisions really be future-proofed? | Nature 530:7591 (pp. 383) | ||||
| Moore | Steven A. | 2016 | Testing a Mature Hypothesis: Reflection on “Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities: Urban Planning and the Contradiction of Sustainable Development | Journal of the American Planning Association (pp. 385-388) | DOI:10.1080/01944363.2016.1213655. | |||
| Moore | Steven A. | 2016 | Pragmatic Sustainability: Dispositions for Critical Adaptation | Routledge | Editor, 2nd edition. | |||
| Poznic | Michael | 2016 | Modeling Organs with Organs on Chips: Scientific Representation and Engineering Design as Modeling Relations | Philosophy & Technology 29:4 (pp. 357-371) | DOI: 10.1007/s13347-016-0225-3 | |||
| Schmidt | Jon A. | 2016 | Your Practice Is Your Ethics: Rethinking Engineering Virtue | Engineering News-Record 277:7 (pp. 56) | http://www.enr.com/articles/40151-your-practice-is-your-ethics?v=preview | |||
| Schmidt | Jon A. | 2016 | The Logic of Ingenuity, Part 1: Engineering Design | STRUCTURE 23:9 (pp. 63) | http://www.structuremag.org/?p=10373 | |||
| Schmidt | Jon A. | 2016 | The Logic of Ingenuity, Part 2: Engineering Analysis | STRUCTURE 23:10 (pp. 46) | http://www.structuremag.org/?p=10490 | |||
| Schmidt | Jon A. | 2016 | The Logic of Ingenuity, Part 3: Engineering Reasoning | STRUCTURE 23:11 (pp. 62-63) | http://www.structuremag.org/?p=10592 | |||
| Coeckelbergh | Mark | 2015 | Money Machines: Electronic Financial Technologies, Distancing, and Responsibility in Global Finance | Ashgate | https://www.routledge.com/products/isbn/9781472445087 | |||
| Coeckelbergh | Mark | 2015 | Environmental Skill: Motivation, Knowledge, and the Possibility of a Non-Romantic Environmental Ethics | Routledge | https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138885578 | |||
| Cruz | Cristiano Cordeiro | 2015 | From the fundamentals to the Praxis: Constructing a different engineering education to make our world a less risky place | risk society; democratizing technology; sustainability. | IEEE | DOI:10.1109/ICL.2015.7318115 | ||
| Hansson | Sven Ove | 2015 | The Role of Technology in Science: Philosophical Perspectives. | Springer | Editor | |||
| Hansson | Sven Ove | 2015 | Nuclear Energy and the Ethics of Radiation Protection | Cambridge University Press (pp. 17-34) | In The Ethics of Nuclear Energy. Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era | Eds. Behnam Taebi and Sabine Roeser | ||
| Hull | Gordon | 2015 | Successful Failure: What Foucault Can Teach Us about Privacy Self-Management in a World of Facebook and Big Data | Ethics and Information Technology 17:2 (pp. 89-101) | ||||
| Kermisch | Celine | 2015 | Specifying the concept of future generations for addressing issues related to high-level radioactive waste | Science and engineering ethics | DOI 10.1007/s11948-015-9741-2 | |||
| Hansson | Sven Ove | 2014 | Making Road Traffic Safer: Reply to Ori | Philosophical Papers 43 (pp. 365-375) | ||||
| Coeckelbergh | Mark | 2013 | Human Being @ Risk: Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations | Springer | http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9789400760240 | |||
| Hansson | Sven Ove | 2013 | What is technological knowledge? | Sense Publishers (pp. 17-31) | In Technology Teachers as Researchers | Eds. Inga-Britt Skogh and Marc J. de Vries | ||
| Hull | Gordon | 2013 | Know thy Cyborg Self: Thoughts on Socrates and Technological Literacy | Sense Publishers (pp. 15-34) | In The Nature of Technology: Implications for Learning and Teaching | |||
| Crocker | Geoff | 2012 | A Managerial Philosophy of Technology : Technology and Humanity in Symbiosis | Palgrave Macmillan | This book is a free download available at http://www.philosophyoftechnology.com | |||
| Hull | Gordon | 2012 | Coding the Dictatorship of ‘the They:’ A Phenomenological Critique of Digital Rights Management | Lexington Books (pp. 197-219) | In Ethics and Phenomenology | |||
| Kermisch | Celine | 2012 | Do new ethical issues arise at each stage of nanotechnological development? | Nanoethics 6:1 (pp. 29-37) | ||||
| Hull | Gordon | 2011 | Contextual Gaps: Privacy Problems on Facebook |