Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn (eBook)

Maarten Franssen, Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Anthonie W.M. Meijers (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
325 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-33717-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume features 16 essays on the philosophy of technology that discuss its identity, its position in philosophy in general, and the role of empirical studies in philosophical analyses of engineering ethics and engineering practices. 

This volume is published about fifteen years after Peter Kroes and Anthonie Meijers published a collection of papers under the title The empirical turn in the philosophy of technology, in which they called for a reorientation toward the practice of engineering, and sketched the likely benefits for philosophy of technology of pursuing its major questions in an empirically informed way.

The essays in this volume fall apart in two different kinds. One kind follows up on The empirical turn discussion about what the philosophy of technology is all about. It continues the search for the identity of the philosophy of technology by asking what comes after the empirical turn. The other kind of essays follows the call for an empirical turn in the philosophy of technology by showing how it may be realized with regard to particular topics. Together these essays offer the reader an overview of the state of the art of an empirically informed philosophy of technology and of various views on the empirical turn as a stepping stone into the future of the philosophy of technology.

Autor

Maarten Franssen is associate professor at the Section of Philosophy at Delft University of Technology. His research interests include the relation between philosophy of technology and philosophy of science, the nature of normativity in relation to artefacts and their use, the metaphysics of artefacts, the analysis of technology as concerned with instrumental and sociotechnical systems, and the analysis of design as decision-making and its problems. Pieter Vermaas is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at Delft University of Technology. His research in the philosophy of technology includes analyses of the concepts of technical function and of technical artefacts, and more recently the study of the structure, aims, and validation of design methods and design thinking. He co-edits the journal Design Science, and edits two book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, and Design Research Foundations. www.pietervermaas.nl Peter Kroes is full professor at the Department of Philosophy of Technology at Delft University of Technology. His main interests in the field of the philosophy of technology are the dual nature of technical artefacts and the philosophy of engineering design. He is one of the co-editors of the book on the empirical turn in the philosophy of technology. http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethicsphilosophy-of-technology/staff/profdrir-pa-peter-kroes/ Anthonie Meijers is full professor at the Department of Philosophy and Ethics of Eindhoven University of Technology. His main interests in the field of the philosophy of technology are the theory of artefacts, agency and artefacts, and the epistemology of technology. He is one of the co-editors of the book on the empirical turn in the philosophy of technology and the editor in chief of the Handbook Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences (2009).

Inhalt

1. Introduction (Maarten Franssen).- 2. Towards a Constructive Philosophy and Ethics
of Technology (Philip
Brey).- 3. The Policy Turn in the Philosophy of Technology (Adam Briggle).- 4. Function and Meaning (Andrew Feenberg).- 5. How to Situate and Anchor The
Philosophy of Technology in The Landscape of Philosophy? (Maarten Franssen).- 6. Technology as a Practical Art (Sven Ove
Hansson).- 7. Values in
Design: Towards a Further Integration of Empirical and Normative Considerations
(Rafaela Hillerbrand).- 8. Perovskite
Philosophy. A Branch-Formation Model of Application-Oriented Science (Wybo
Houkes).- 9. Toward an Axiological
Turn in the Philosophy of Technology (Peter Kroes) .- 10.  Composition and Handoff in Socio-technologies (Deirdre
K. Mulligan).- 11. For the
Benefit of Humanity: Micro-, Meso-, Macro-, and Meta-Values in Engineering (Byron
Newberry).- 12. Science vs. Technology: Difference or Identity? (Ilkka Niiniluoto).- 13. Changing
Perspectives: From the Experimental to the Technological Turn in History and
Philosophy of Science (Alfred Nordmann).- 14. What the Future will Bring (Joseph C. Pitt).- 15. Function and Finitism (Pablo Schyfter).- 16. An Empirical Turn
in Ethics of Technology: On the Possibility of Using Empirical Data in The
Ethics of Technology and Engineering (Benham Taebi).- 17. The Empirical Turn in Ethics (Ibo van de Poel).- 18. The
Engineering Turn in Conceptual Analysis (Pieter E. Vermaas).- 19. An Empirical Based Classification of
Engineering Projects (Sjoerd D. Zwart).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: VI, 325 p. 9 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Empirical Turn • Engineering Ethics • Ethics of Technology • Philosophical Taxonomy • philosophy of engineering • philosophy of science • Philosophy of Technology • Science and Technology Studies • technical artifacts • Values in Technology
• ISBN-10: 3-319-33717-3 / 3319337173
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-33717-3 / 9783319337173