What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly
progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The …

This essay offers an explanation of the metaphysics of technology. It analyzes the principal
characteristics of technology: rationality, materiality, accumulation, process, and method …

What Heidegger called “the question of technology” has a peculiar status in the academy
today. After World War II, the humanities and social sciences were swept by a wave of …

In this collection we finally find the philosophy of technology, a young and rapidly
developing area of scholarly interest, making contact with history of science and technology …

The history of the philosophy of technology is marked by a transition in its approach to
technology. This transition is often indicated as an 'empirical turn'(Achterhuis 2001; Kroes …

A philosophy of technology is mainly a critical reflection on technology from the point of view
of the main chapters of philosophy, eg, metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Technology …

From editors Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey comes an unusually reflective and wide-
ranging colloquium on technology as a philosophical problem. Organized into sections on …

In the following pages I have endeavored to show the impact on philosophy of tech nology
and science; more specifically, I have tried to make up for the neglect by the classical …

If philosophy is the attempt “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the
term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”, as Sellars (1962) put it …

It is true that work in the philosophy of technology predates the founding of the Society for
Philosophy and Technology (SPT), and probably would have managed to struggle on even …