Philosophers of technology now turn to the phenomena in order to learn from them–always,
and unavoidably, selectively. This is important and, as the essays in this book testify …

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 …

Abstract About 15 years ago, Peter Kroes and Anthonie Meijers published as editors a
collection of papers under the title The empirical turn in the philosophy of technology (Kroes …

Casper Bruun Jensen and Christopher Gad 293 relation to some ideas within contemporary
anthropology and to a critical discussion about the increasing emphasis on practice. While …

When the Techné Editorial Office contacted me with an invitation to do a new “state-of-the-
art” piece for this also new print version of our journal, I was delighted—although at the …

Philosophy of technology is a young field, one of the youngest among “philosophies of,” but
since in philosophy development is measured in millennia, this can be a misleading …

In this paper we discuss a follow-up step of the empirical turn that we refer to as an
“axiological turn” in the philosophy of technology. For a clear understanding of this follow-up …

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During the second half of the twentieth century, several philosophers of technology argued
that their predecessors had reflected too abstractly and pessimistically on technology. In the …

During the closing session of the 1991 conference of the Society for Philosophy and
Technology, which took place in Puerto Rico, Langdon Winner gave the audience a very …